Europe – First adapted COVID-19 booster vaccines recommended for approval in the EU
EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended authorising two vaccines adapted to provide broader protection against COVID-19. Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.1 and Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron...
USA – FDA Approves First Gene Therapy to Treat Adults with Hemophilia B
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), an adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with Hemophilia...
USA – FDA officials offer advice on gene therapy trials
Officials from the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies (OTAT) asserted...
USA – FDA seeks feedback on artificial intelligence in drug manufacturing
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is soliciting feedback on how to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced manufacturing techniques into the current...
Europe – EMA recommendation paper: Safety, data integrity key to decentralized trial conduct
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), European Commission (EC), and Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) recently acknowledged the growing role of decentralized elements in the...
UK – Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo recommended by NICE for rare gastroesophageal cancers
Specifically, NICE’s recommendation is extended to patients with untreated HER2-negative, advanced or metastatic gastric, gastro-oesophageal junction or oesophageal adenocarcinoma if the tumours express PD-L1...
International – WHO proposes updated excipient GMPs in wake of contaminated cough syrup
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently proposed updated guidance to assist pharmaceutical manufacturers in assessing the quality of excipients after child deaths were reported...
UK – AstraZeneca’s heart failure treatment recommended by NICE for expanded use
Forxiga, sold as Farxiga in certain markets, has previously been recommended by NICE as a treatment option for HF patients with reduced ejection fraction...
USA – FDA finalizes guidance on considerations for evaluating drug’s benefits and risks
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized guidance that clarifies how the benefits and risks of a drug or biologic factored into...
USA – CBER chief on remote work, CRISPR-Cas9, and rare disease gene therapy accelerated...
The use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology has potential to transform the field of gene therapy through its simple and cost-effective delivery mechanism, said...
