Three of the accelerated approvals were for CAR-T products, a class that the agency considers to be gene therapies. The FDA’s September approval of bluebird bio’s Skysona for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy was the lone non-cancer product in the group. Pink Sheet infographic tracks the required confirmatory studies and timelines for all four products.
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.’s Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy SRP-9001 is heading into a high-profile advisory committee meeting on 12 May where accelerated approval based on micro-dystrophin as a surrogate endpoint reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit will be up for debate.
The product’s regulatory path through the US Food and Drug Administration is being closely watched not only by those in...
Despite following the path of the popular Project Orbis, the cell and gene therapy international collaborative review pilot is being reconsidered by the FDA's new management.
Highlights from day one of the BIO convention include advice for firms hoping to go public, a call for companies to push the US Congress on rare disease priority review vouchers, and updates on next-generation gene therapies.
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals’ resmetirom could become the first approved treatment for non-cirrhotic metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis in the EU, if the European Medicines Agency issues a positive opinion for the drug later this week.
The Pediatric Advisory Committee will review postmarketing safety for three vaccines and the oncologic drugs panel will consider the return of GSK’s belantamab mafodotin. An FDA notice about a 30 July meeting on Capricor’s deramiocel for Duchenne muscular dystrophy was withdrawn.
Sarepta's rAAVrh74 vector, used in the marketed Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys and across the company's limb girdle muscular dystrophy pipeline, earned a platform designation as the lead LGMD candidate prepares for BLA filing.
Cell and gene therapy developers may not have to contend with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s animosity like the traditional pharma industry, but his disinterest in distinguishing between the good and bad actors in the space could backfire.
Clinical trial sponsors in the rare disease space face “big safety demands” from regulators, which can be challenging for those with limited resources. A CRO founder makes the case for “embedding automation” into the clinical trial process to keep pace with regulatory requirements.
