Regulatory Authority Actions

EMA's CHMP has approved two new manufacturing sites and a ready-to-use formulation of Comirnaty.

EMA has started its evaluation of further expanded use of Comirnaty in children aged between five years and 11 years old.

In addition to allowing booster shots of the Moderna and J&J vaccines, FDA approved heterologous booster shots.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

A new program will test the safety and suitability of new inactive ingredients to encourage the accelerated adoption of FDA-accepted excipients in drug development.

EMA's CHMP is going to perform an accelerated assessment of data submitted by Moderna regarding the use of a booster dose of Spikevax.

FDA granted orphan drug designation to Catalyst Biosciences’ MarzAA for the treatment of Factor VII Deficiency.

FDA approved AbbVie’s Qulipta (atogepant) as a preventative migraine treatment.

GeneTx Biotherapeutics and Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical announced that FDA has removed the clinical hold on GTX-102, an investigational treatment for Angelman syndrome.

The lack of a new permanent commissioner has hampered FDA in articulating future priorities and pushing back against miscommunications and outside complaints.

Biosimilar approvals and the advance of biosimilar testing and production may lead to greater access to alternative therapies.