The effort to remove Makena from the market has already lasted longer than the Avastin process from initial advisory committee vote favoring withdrawal until the final order, and the Makena appeal hearing hasn’t even been scheduled yet.
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Top areas for potential 2025 approvals were shaped by R&D focused on increasingly tightly targeted therapies, including the eight new candidates to join the still-burgeoning kinase inhibitor class and RNA interference, as well as many varieties of antibodies.
CBER has at least 14 and CDER another 10 novel biologics among the more than 60 candidates with a user fee goal in 2025.
Restrictions on commonly used chemicals, increased reporting requirements and enhanced environmental risk assessments are just some of the new EU sustainability and environmental rules pharmaceutical companies are potentially facing. While some measures are multi-sectoral, others are pharma specific. The Pink Sheet takes a look at some of the developments in 2024 and expectations for 2025 and beyond.
Only one-third of novel agents with 2025 goal dates come from the traditional oncology, hematology and neuroscience strongholds. Immunodermatology also is cooling, while cardiovascular drugs return to the front burner.
ISRCTN’s systems are being redesigned to facilitate compliance with upcoming requirements in the UK’s clinical trials legislation.
The use of J&J’s Darzalex Faspro in high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma could result in overtreatment, but the FDA committee voted in favor of the new claim for delay in development of multiple myeloma.
The glofitamab trial results are not generalizable due to the small number of enrolled US lymphoma patients and adverse results across multiple endpoints for patients from non-Asian regions, the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee said.
