Keeping Track: Showers Of Approvals In US FDA’s May Forecast

Reviewers were not targeted by the FDA reduction in force, but increasing attrition and difficulties hiring new staff still do not seem to have impacted new and generic drug approval totals.

Returning FDA biologics center director Vinay Prasad used the Papzimeous approval announcement to reinforce his flexibility on rare disease therapies after several complete response letters and his brief departure from the agency.

The Pink Sheet takes an exclusive look at the complete response letter, which shows the information on application deficiencies that could become widely available if FDA leaders succeed in releasing CRLs in real time.

The Pink Sheet viewed Stealth's complete response letter and other documents indicating the FDA appears willing to grant accelerated approval to elamipretide before a confirmatory trial begins enrolling. But the company says it needs a two-month review of the NDA resubmission to survive.