OSAKA, Japan and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Takeda (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved EOHILIA (budesonide oral suspension), the first and only FDA-approved oral therapy for people 11 years and older with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). It will be available in 2 mg/10 mL convenient,...
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Washington DC – The FDA has granted approval to frontline toripalimab-tpzi (Loqtorzi) plus cisplatin and gemcitabine for adult patients with metastatic or locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), as well as single-agent toripalimab for recurrent, unresectable, or metastatic disease that has progressed on or following prior chemotherapy, according to a press...
WASHINGTON DC – Following in the footsteps of its U.K. counterpart, the FDA on Friday approved the first-ever CRISPR-based gene editing therapy in the form of Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) for sickle cell disease, while also granting approval to bluebird bio’s lovo-cel, which will carry the...
Boston, Mass. – Vorasidenib has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients with Grade 2 gliomas with IDH1 or IDH2 mutations. Based on evidence from the INDIGO clinical trial, a global phase 3, double-blinded, randomized clinical trial, vorasidenib more than doubled progression-free survival and delayed the need for...
Washington, DC – The FDA’s safety probe of CAR-T therapies has resulted in a call to add a class-wide boxed warning to these medicines, alerting patients and prescribers of their potential risk of secondary T-cell malignancies. All six commercial CAR-T therapies will be affected, including J&J’s Legend Biotech-partnered Carvykti (ciltacabtagene...
MIAMI, Florida — DermaSensor Inc. announces FDA clearance for its real-time, non-invasive skin cancer evaluation system. For the first time, the 300,000 primary care physicians in the U.S. can now be equipped to provide quantitative, point-of-care testing for all types of skin cancer. Better identifying skin cancer in a primary...
MELBOURNE, Australia — Amplia Therapeutics Limited, is pleased to announce that the U.S. FDA have cleared Amplia’s IND application for a trial of Amplia’s best-in-class focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitor narmafotinib in pancreatic cancer. The proposed trial will explore the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a combination of narmafotinib with...
Washington DC — FDA announced a pilot program, Support for clinical Trials Advancing Rare disease Therapeutics (START), intended to support development of novel drug and biological products for rare diseases. The agency is establishing a pilot program for a limited number of sponsors, intended to allow for more regular communication...
Parc d’Innovation, Illkirch, France – Transgene (Euronext Paris: FR0005175080) announces that it recently met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an end of Phase II meeting when results of its TG4010 controlled phase IIb clinical trial in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were reviewed. As per the minutes...
VANCOUVER, BC – Bold Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, is announcing that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted BOLD-100 an Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) in the treatment of gastric (stomach) cancer. BOLD-100 is a first-in-class ruthenium-based small molecule therapeutic that (1) alters the unfolded protein response (UPR)...