MUMBAI, India and PRINCETON, N.J. — Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE: SUNPHARMA, BSE: 524715 (together with its subsidiaries and/or associated companies, “Sun Pharma”)) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an updated label for UNLOXCYT™ (cosibelimab-ipdl) for the treatment of adults with metastatic CSCC...
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved UPLIZNA® (inebilizumab-cdon) for the treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) in adults who are anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) and anti-muscle specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK) antibody positive. The approval offers patients a new targeted treatment...
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...
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands & BOSTON, Mass. — VectorY Therapeutics, a leader in vectorized antibody therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company to proceed with the PIONEER-ALS Phase 1/2 Trial of VTx-002. VTx-002 is a first-in-class vectorized antibody targeting TDP-43...
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...
RAHWAY, N.J. – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an update to the U.S. product label based on the Phase 3 ZENITH trial for WINREVAIR™ (sotatercept-csrk) for injection, 45mg, 60mg. WINREVAIR, an...
PLAINSBORO, N.J. — Novo Nordisk announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Alhemo® (concizumab-mtci) injection as a once-daily prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with hemophilia A or B (HA/HB) without inhibitors, expanding...