The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review Pfizer's supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for XELJANZ (tofacitinib citrate) 5 mg twice daily (BID) for the treatment of adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) for previously treated patients with advanced bladder cancer.
Takeda Pharmaceutical’s Alunbrig (brigatinib) has secured accelerated approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients whose disease has progressed on or are intolerant to crizotinib.
Novartis’ Rydapt (midostaurin) has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in newly diagnosed FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and three types of systemic mastocytosis (SM).
uniQure’s AMT-060 investigational gene therapy in patients with severe hemophilia B, has been granted PRIME designation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The European Medicine Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ Kevzara (sarilumab) for treating adult patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis after adopting a positive opinion for its for its marketing authorization.
The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of both Sandoz' biosimilars rituximab and etanercept to treat the same indications as their respective reference medicines.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Genentech’s Lucentis (ranibizumab injection) 0.3 mg for the monthly treatment of all forms of diabetic retinopathy.
Gilead Sciences has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for supplemental indications of Harvoni (ledipasvir 90 mg/sofosbuvir 400 mg) tablets and Sovaldi (sofosbuvir 400 mg) tablets for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection treatment in adolescents without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis, 12 years of age and older, or weighing at least 35kg.
Novartis’ drug combination of Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib) has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of patients having BRAF V600-positive advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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