Tecvayli (teclistamab) is on track to winning pan EU-marketing approval, following the European Medicines Agency’s recommendation that the drug, from Janssen Pharmaceutical, be granted a conditional marketing authorization for treating adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least three prior therapies.
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The European Medicines Agency has cleared the decks for the pan-EU approval of nearly a dozen new drugs. Tecvayli is headed for a conditional approval, while Nulibry is slated to get marketing authorization under exceptional circumstances.

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