Tag: FDA

March 9, 2017 Off

Servier cleared for UCART development in the USA

By Dino Mustafić

Servier has been cleared with Investiga New Drug (IND) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the clinical development of UCART19, an allogeneic, gene-edited cellular therapy candidate to treat relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

March 8, 2017 Off

Alexion waits for FDA’s OK for generalized myasthenia gravis drug

By Dino Mustafić

U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has accepted for review the Alexion Pharmaceuticals’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to extend the indication for Soliris (eculizumab) as a potential treatment for patients with refractory generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) who are anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody-positive.

February 23, 2017 Off

Novartis’s cancer drug wins FDA’s sNDA, priority review and breakthrough therapy designation

By Dino Mustafić

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Novartis’s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for filing, and granted Priority Review for the expanded use of Zykadia (ceritinib) as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors are anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive as detected by an FDA-approved test.

February 9, 2017 Off

FDA approves Marathon Pharmaceuticals’s orphan drug

By Dino Mustafić

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Marathon Pharmaceuticals’s Emflaza (deflazacort) tablets and oral suspension to treat patients age 5 years and older with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle deterioration and weakness.