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Keeping Track: US FDA Files Another Pfizer Cancer Biologic And TMC's New Antibiotic

 
• By Bridget Silverman

The latest drug development news and highlights from our FDA Performance Tracker.

FDA accepted applications for two more novel products as the agency's 2017 user fee calendar continues to fill. Here's your news in brief:

Pfizer Inc.'s inotuzumab ozogamicin and The Medicines Co.'s Carbavance (meropenem/vaborbactam) join more than 40 other new molecular entities...

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• By Eliza Slawther

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