Regulatory Filings and Submissions

FDA has approved a new gene therapy for treating patients born with a rare, inherited vision loss.

Sanofi Genzyme and its partner, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, has filed a marketing authorization application with EMA for an investigational RNAi therapeutic for treating a genetic-based disease.

FDA has approved a Pfizer biosimilar to J&J’s top-selling anti-inflammatory biologic, Remicade.

The draft guidance gives recommendations on how certain oral drug products should be labeled regarding gluten.

The approval for Admelog (insulin lispro injection) marks the first short-acting insulin approved as a “follow-on” product.

The European Medicines Agency has granted Samsung BioLogics approval to manufacture a monoclonal antibody at the company’s second facility in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea.

The agency has approved Nucala (mepolizumab) to treat Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA) to GlaxoSmithKline. This indication is the first FDA-approved therapy specifically to treat EGPA.

FDA has accepted for review Eli Lilly and Company’s biologic drug candidate that is in development for treating migraine.

Biopharma majors are among the industry stakeholders who have commented and raised questions about FDA’s recently proposed draft guidance for analytical assessment of similarity in biosimilars.

FDA has approved Mylan’s biosimilar to Roche’s blockbuster anti-cancer biologic, Herceptin.

New gene therapies and combination products require innovative regulatory approaches.

The agency has approved a biologic-based new molecular entity for treating hemophilia A and has expanded the indication for a leukemia drug to now treat a common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, outlined a plan to support innovation of regenerative medicines while ensuring public safety.

Two of the medicines recommended for approval are orphan drugs.

The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended marketing authorization approval for AstraZeneca’s benralizumab, a monoclonal antibody for treating severe asthma.

The company expects to commercially launch the new vaccine in the US in the first quarter of 2018.

FDA is exploring ways to keep branded drug companies from using REMS to block the development of generic drugs.

The debate continues over biosimilar naming, interchangeability, and patent protection, as well as lingering concerns in the medical community about the safety of switching patients to new therapies.

The vaccine is approved for the prevention of shingles in adult patients aged 50 years and older.

The European Commission and EMA have created an action plan to address challenges identified by stakeholders involved in developing advanced therapies.

This approval marks the second gene therapy to be approved by FDA and the first to be approved for certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The vaccine is a non-live, recombinant subunit vaccine that combines an antigen and an adjuvant system to trigger a targeted and long-lasting immune response to the shingle-causing virus.

Stelara (ustekinumab), already approved for treating adults, is now also approved for treating adolescents with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

The committee has voted unanimously to approve Spark Therapeutics’ gene therapy candidate, Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec), for treating a genetically inherited blindness.

Amgen is seeking approval for an additional indication in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis for its blockbuster osteoporosis therapeutic, Prolia.