US FDA advisory committee voted unanimously that there was not enough evidence to show the monoclonal antibody improves overall survival, but panelists are hopeful that real-world evidence could eventually get the orphan candidate over the finish line.
Y-mAbs Therapeutics Inc.’s statistical arguments could not convince the US Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee that its I-omburtamab was effective in neuroblastoma, just like it did not sway the agency reviewers.
But advisory committee members indicated that the ground-breaking work Y-mAbs and the FDA are undertaking using real-world data could eventually...
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
Upcoming FDA user fee goal dates include novel products from a busy lung cancer pipeline, a single-dose passive immunization against RSV for infants, what could be the first oral HAE acute treatment, and a first-in-class HAE preventive antibody.
Advisory committee for Capricor’s deriamocel planned, regenerative medicine advanced therapy designations proliferate for osteoarthritis, and the ranks of dual RMAT/breakthrough therapy designation holders grow.
The 31 May goal date for Moderna’s next-generation COVID-19 vaccine looms over the month, but the US FDA's decision lineup includes three more novel agents, including AbbVie's Teliso-V antibody-drug conjugate, as well as supplemental indications like GSK's bid for Nucala in COPD.
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.
In the infrequent cases when EU authorization precedes US FDA approvals of new products, biologics manufacturing issues are usually to blame, a Pink Sheet analysis found.
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