EU Decision Time For Janssen’s Talquetamab & 14 Other Products, But MSD Withdraws Lagevrio Filing

A bumper crop of products are up for an opinion this week by the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee, the CHMP, as to whether they should be approved in the EU.

European Flags in front of the European Commission Headquarters building in Brussels, Belgium
CHMP opinions on drugs are sent to the European Commission for a legally binding decision • Source: Shutterstock

The European Medicines Agency is this week due to decide whether to recommend pan-EU marketing approval for 15 new products, including talquetamab, Janssen’s investigational bispecific antibody for treating patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM).

Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for older adults, and the company’s ritlecitinib for treating alopecia areata in adults and adolescents, are also among the 15 products, according to the

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