Quality/GMPs

FDA is expanding its Emerging Technology Program and providing more support for new drug applications that present advanced manufacturing technologies.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Cyltezo (adalimumab-adbm) is the first FDA approved interchangeable biosimilar for Humira.

The council voted 19-0 to recommend that FDA authorize booster doses of the J&J COVID-19 vaccine just one day after granting Moderna a similar recommendation.

The council voted 19–0 to recommend that FDA authorize booster doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for certain populations.

BioPharm International checked in with AAPS, IPEC-Americas, and PDA to get an update on how the organizations are navigating the pandemic and planning for the future.

After months of deliberation, Biden plans to appoint cardiologist Robert Califf as FDA commissioner.

Proposed changes to rules governing the commercialization of technologies developed with federal funding prompts significant stakeholder feedback.

Responsible data handling, the impact of mishandling data, and how organizations can implement ethical data best practices.

Smaller biopharma companies must do due diligence with their CMC strategy for BLA filings.

The evolution of regulatory guidelines for biosimilars alongside improvements in knowledge and understanding provide a platform for growth in the European market.

For some manufacturers, the goal was to be fully compliant with the DSCSA, including both serialization and aggregation, from day one.

Low- and middle-income countries are at the greatest risk of receiving substandard and falsified COVID-19 vaccines.

Industry representatives sound off on FDA’s FARS report, released in January this year.

Enzyvant’s Rethymic is the first FDA approved treatment for congenital athymia.

Roche has submitted a marketing authorization application to EMA for Ronapreve (casirivimab/imdevimab) as a treatment for COVID-19.

EMA has halted the rolling review of CureVac's COVID-19 candidate, CVnCoV, due to the company withdrawing from the process.

MHRA has awarded an ‘Innovation Passport’ to CellResearch for its umbilical cord lining stem cell therapy, CorLiCyte.

The approval of ChemoCentryx’s Tavenos (avacopan) provides a new treatment for active anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis.

AstraZeneca’s tezelpelumab was granted orphan drug designation by FDA for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis.

FDA’s emergency use authorization will double rapid at-home COVID-19 testing capacity.

The agency received a marketing authorization application a monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 patients.

The agency has concluded that an extra dose of the COVID-19 vaccines may be given to those individuals with severely weakened immune systems.

The agency’s human medicines committee approved an additional site in West Point, Pa. in the United States for the manufacture of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine.

FDA and EMA are looking to tap real-world data and real-world evidence more broadly to accelerate the research and market approval process.

Public health challenges have highlighted the need for agility in maintaining the quality of medicines.