Nashville, Tennessee – Among adult patients with severe sickle cell disease (SCD), favorable outcomes were reported with use of a modified transplantation procedure, according to results from a multicenter study presented at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition in December 2023. Although the use of...
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. — XOMA Corporation the biotech royalty aggregator, announced today that based upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) acceptance of Zevra Therapeutics’ New Drug Application (NDA) for arimoclomol, an orally-delivered, first-in-class therapy for Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC), XOMA will make a $1 million milestone payment to...
On March 22, an FDA Advisory Committee (AdCom) unanimously voted in favor of accelerated approval for Biogen’s tofersen for a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Panelists voted 9-0 that tofersen’s demonstrated reduction in plasma neurofilament—a biomarker of neurodegeneration—was “reasonably likely” to predict clinical benefit in ALS. The AdCom...
Washington DC – The FDA’s Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee agreed that Vertex Pharmaceuticals had sufficiently demonstrated the safety of its investigational sickle cell disease gene-edited therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel). Still, the panel of external experts did indicate that Vertex and its partner CRISPR Therapeutics could follow treated...
Most parents wouldn’t be thrilled with the idea of their kids getting hooked up to an IV bag filled with trillions of viruses. But for Melanie Hennick, whose son, Connor, has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, it was an opportunity she hoped would change his life. “We knew this wasn’t a cure,”...
BOSTON, Mass. and SURESNES, France — Servier, a global leader in oncology focused on delivering meaningful therapeutic progress for the patients it serves, today announced the FDA filing acceptance and priority review for a New Drug Application (NDA) for vorasidenib, as well as the EMA granting accelerated assessment for the...
Washington, DC – The 2023 US Food and Drug Administration approval of omaveloxolone (Skyclarys®) for the treatment of Friedreich ataxia (FA) in patients aged 16 or more years was a significant step forward for the FA community. Omaveloxolone promotes improved mitochondrial function and boosts antioxidant activity—but it does not offer...
Recently completed medical research could lead to the first ever FDA approved drugs for FSGS and IgA Nephropathy—two conditions with dismal prognoses using current interventions. Nephrology Associates of Northern Illinois and Indiana (NANI) physicians and researchers nationwide collaborated on groundbreaking studies. IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) is an autoimmune disease that affects the kidneys...
EAST HANOVER, N.J. — Novartis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Lutathera® (lutetium Lu 177 dotatate) for the treatment of pediatric patients 12 years and older with somatostatin receptor-positive (SSTR+) gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs), including foregut, midgut, and hindgut NETs. This approval makes Lutathera the first therapy...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved an imaging drug known as Cytalux (pafolacianine), which is attracted to ovarian cancer tissue and illuminates it when exposed to fluorescent light, allowing surgeons to more easily find and more precisely remove the cancer. Physicians at the Center for Precision Surgery in the Abramson Cancer Center...