CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to CTX001, an investigational, autologous, gene-edited hematopoietic stem cell therapy, for the treatment of severe sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).
Takeda Pharmaceutical announced that the European Commission has granted a Marketing Authorization for the subcutaneous (SC) formulation of Entyvio (vedolizumab), a gut-selective biologic for use as maintenance therapy in adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease (CD).
Eli Lilly and Company announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Retevmo (selpercatinib, 40 mg & 80 mg capsules), the first therapy specifically indicated for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic rearranged during transfection (RET) fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with advanced or metastatic RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) who require systemic therapy, or advanced or metastatic RET fusion-positive thyroid cancer who require systemic therapy and who are radioactive iodine-refractory (if radioactive iodine is appropriate).
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo have secured breakthrough therapy designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Enhertu to treat patients with HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who have received two or more prior regimens including trastuzumab.
Daiichi Sankyo has submitted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for trastuzumab deruxtecan (DS-8201), a HER2 directed antibody drug conjugate (ADC), for the treatment of patients with HER2 positive metastatic gastric cancer.
Novartis has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Tabrecta (capmatinib) to treat adult patients metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with MET exon 14 skipping (METex14).
Acceleron Pharma said that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted Priority Medicines (PRIME) designation to sotatercept for the treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
Bristol Myers Squibb announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its New Drug Application (NDA) for CC-486 for the maintenance treatment of adults in remission with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Gilead Sciences' investigational antiviral remdesivir for the treatment of Covid-19.
Banner Life Sciences, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted final approval of BAFIERTAM (monomethyl fumarate) delayed-release capsules for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS).
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