Sanofi Gets A Helping Hand From US FDA At Dengvaxia Review

After split verdicts on efficacy and safety for Sanofi’s proposed population for the dengue vaccine, FDA added two new questions limited to pediatric use, which drew strong advisory committee support.

Safety equipment, Life buoy or rescue buoy floating on sea to rescue people from drowning man.
FDA threw Sanofi a proverbial life preserver in the form of two additional voting questions on effectiveness and safety for a pediatric population.

Sanofi emerged from a challenging US FDA advisory committee review of Dengvaxia with strongly positive votes on two of four questions posed to the panel, thanks in large part to the agency’s own apparent enthusiasm for the controversial dengue vaccine.

Throughout the March 7 meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, staff in the Center for Biologics...

More from US FDA Performance Tracker

US FDA’s Second Half 2025 User Fee Goals Swing Toward Respiratory Disease

 

The 43 novel agents with user fee goal dates in the remainder of 2025 have fewer oncologics and infectious disease drugs than the first half of the year.

Slowdown: US FDA’s 2025 Novel Approvals Are On Below-Average Pace

 

US FDA's 25 novel approvals in 2025 fell short of the agency's five-year average count, driven by a drop in drugs center approvals; 45 user fee goals remain in second half of year.

US FDA’s CRL Release More Incremental Than ‘Radical’ Transparency

 

The transparency initiative collects CRLs already made public in approval packages on its drugs@fda site to post on the openFDA public portal.

America Next: Most Novel Agents With July Goal Dates Have Been Approved Overseas

 

The US FDA will not be in its usual position as the first regulator to approve novel drugs, with only one of the six novel candidates on the July user fee calendar seeking its first approval worldwide in the US

More from Regulatory Trackers

America Next: Most Novel Agents With July Goal Dates Have Been Approved Overseas

 

The US FDA will not be in its usual position as the first regulator to approve novel drugs, with only one of the six novel candidates on the July user fee calendar seeking its first approval worldwide in the US

EU CHMP Opinions And MAA Updates

 

This is an update of recommendations from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on the authorization of new medicines in the EU, and updates on EU marketing authorization changes recommended by the CHMP.

Global Pharma Guidance Tracker - May 2025

 

Stay up to date on regulatory guidelines from around the world with the Pink Sheet’s Guidance Tracker. The complete Global Pharma Guidance Tracker, with sortable and searchable listings going back to 2014, is available online.