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Anticancers, Orphans & The First CAR-Ts: New EU Drug Approvals In 2018

 
• By Ian Schofield

New approvals in the EU were again dominated by oncology drugs in 2018, although medicines for infectious diseases were a close second. The number of orphan drugs more than doubled over the previous year, to 17. There were also some star arrivals in multiple sclerosis, genetic disorders, metabolism and migraine.

2019 2018 Perspectives
45 new medicines were approved in the EU in 2018.

2018 was a bumper year for new drug approvals in the EU, with 45 products containing a total of 42 new active substances authorized for marketing, well up over the 2017 total of 28 products containing 29 new active substances.

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