Approvals

ViiV Healthcare gets FDA expanded approval for HIV-1 drug Dovato

Specialist HIV company ViiV Healthcare has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Dovato (dolutegravir/lamivudine) as a complete regimen to treat HIV-1 infection.

GSK secures FDA nod for BLENREP to treat relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its BLENREP (belantamab mafodotin-blmf) to treat patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

MYR Pharmaceuticals receives conditional marketing authorisation by European Commission for HEPCLUDEX

MYR Pharmaceuticals, a German biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and D, is pleased to announce that the European Commission (EC) has granted the Conditional Marketing Authorization (CMA) for their lead compound HEPCLUDEX.

ReViral secures FDA fast track status for sisunatovir to treat severe RSV infection

Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company ReViral has secured fast track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its sisunatovir to treat patients with serious respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection.

FDA approves Roche’s Tecentriq plus Cotellic and Zelboraf for people with advanced melanoma

Roche announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tecentriq® (atezolizumab) plus Cotellic® (cobimetinib) and Zelboraf® (vemurafenib) for the treatment of BRAF V600 mutation-positive advanced melanoma patients. The safety profile observed in the Tecentriq combination was consistent with the known safety profiles of the individual medicines.

Novartis gets EC nod for Cosentyx drug in paediatric psoriasis

Novartis has secured approval from the European Commission (EC) for its Cosentyx (secukinumab) to treat moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in children and adolescents aged between six and 18 years.

Takeda gets FDA breakthrough therapy status for pevonedistat to treat higher-risk HR-MDS

Takeda Pharmaceutical has secured a breakthrough therapy designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational drug pevonedistat to treat patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (HR-MDS).

Jazz Pharmaceuticals gets US FDA approval of Xywav for cataplexy associated with narcolepsy

Jazz Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Xywav (calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium oxybates) oral solution on July 21, 2020 for the treatment of cataplexy or excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in patients 7 years of age and older with narcolepsy.

EC approves new indication for Boehringer’s nintedanib in pulmonary fibrosis

Boehringer Ingelheim has secured approval for a new indication of nintedanib to treat adults with other chronic fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) with a progressive phenotype beyond idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).