Oragenics, Inc. announced receipt of feedback to its Type B Pre-IND Meeting Request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) that it is in broad agreement with the Company’s planned approach to clinical development of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, Terra CoV-2.
Pfizer and BioNTech announced the initiation of a rolling submission to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for BNT162b2, the lead candidate from the companies’ vaccine development program against Covid-19.
GlycoMimetics announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Company a Rare Pediatric Disease designation for rivipansel for the treatment of sickle cell disease in patients 18 years old and younger. This designation recognizes the significant needs in pediatric patients.
ImmunoGen has secured breakthrough therapy status from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its IMGN632 to treat patients with relapsed or refractory blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN).
Bristol Myers Squibb announced that Opdivo (nivolumab) 360 mg every three weeks plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) 1 mg/kg every six weeks (injections for intravenous use) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM).
AstraZeneca has secured breakthrough therapy designation (BTD) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Farxiga (dapagliflozin) in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, with and without type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Baylx, a clinical-stage stem cell biopharmaceutical company focused on developing living stem cell products to address unmet medical needs, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Baylx's Investigational New Drug (IND) application for BX-U001, a fresh, non-frozen human umbilical cord tissue mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSC) product in patients with COVID-19.
Infinity Pharmaceuticals announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for eganelisib (IPI-549) in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor and chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with inoperable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), in the first-line setting. Infinity is currently enrolling patients in MARIO-3, the Company’s ongoing Phase 2 study in collaboration with Roche/Genentech to evaluate eganelisib in a novel triple combination front-line regimen with Tecentriq and Abraxane in TNBC.
AVROBIO, a leading clinical-stage gene therapy company with a mission to free people from a lifetime of genetic disease, announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted orphan drug designation for AVR-RD-02, the company’s investigational gene therapy for the treatment of Gaucher disease.
Pfizer has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Xeljanz (tofacitinib) to treat children and adolescents two years and older with active polyarticular course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pcJIA).
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