AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Daiichi Sankyo)’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) in the US for the treatment of patients with gastric cancer, including gastroesophageal junction cancer.
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Kynmobi (apomorphine hydrochloride) sublingual film (APL-130277) to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) off episodes.
AstraZeneca and Merck announced that LYNPARZA (olaparib) has been approved in the US for the treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have progressed following prior treatment with enzalutamide or abiraterone. Patients will be selected for therapy based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic for LYNPARZA.
Novartis company AveXis has secured conditional approval from the European Commission (EC) for its Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec) to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tecentriq® (atezolizumab) as a first-line (initial) treatment for adults with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have high PD-L1 expression (PD-L1 stained ≥ 50% of tumor cells [TC ≥ 50%] or PD-L1 stained tumor-infiltrating [IC] covering ≥ 10% of the tumor area [IC ≥ 10%]), as determined by an FDA-approved test, with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Qinlock (ripretinib) to treat fourth-line gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST).
Neuraptive Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing novel therapeutics and medical products for treatment of peripheral nerve injuries (PNI), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation for its franchise therapeutic product, NTX-001, in the treatment of patients with peripheral nerve injuries.
Takeda Pharmaceutical has secured expanded approval from the European Commission (EC) for its Adcetris in combination with CHP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, prednisone) to treat adult patients with previously untreated systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL), a subtype of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL).
Seattle Genetics announced that the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products (Swissmedic) has granted approval for TUKYSA (tucatinib) tablets in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine, for the treatment of patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer, who have previously received two or more anti-HER2 regimens in any setting, including trastuzumab, pertuzumab and trastuzumab-emtansine (T–DM1).
CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to CTX001, an investigational, autologous, gene-edited hematopoietic stem cell therapy, for the treatment of severe sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).
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