AbbVie said that the European Commission has approved a change to the marketing authorization for MAVIRET (glecaprevir/pibrentasvir) to shorten once-daily treatment duration from 12 to 8 weeks in treatment-naïve, compensated cirrhotic, chronic hepatitis C (HCV) patients with genotype (GT) 3 infection.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has secured marketing authorisation from the European Commission (EC) for its Givlaari (givosiran) to treat acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older.
Pfizer has secured European approval for its oral transthyretin stabilizer VYNDAQEL (tafamidis) for the treatment of wild-type or hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis in adult patients with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM).
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) today announced that the company has withdrawn its application in the European Union (EU) for the combination of Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) based on data from CheckMate -227.
Kite, a Gilead Company announced that the company’s Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for KTE-X19, an investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), has been fully validated and is now under evaluation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Novartis has secured approval for Mayzent (siponimod) in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) in adults.
Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, announced that the European Commission has approved KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, as monotherapy or in combination with platinum and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic or unresectable recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) whose tumors express PD-L1 (combined positive score [CPS] ≥1).
Astellas Pharma’s Xospata (gilteritinib) has secured approval from the European Commission (EC) as a monotherapy for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).
Roche’s Tecentriq (atezolizumab) and chemotherapy combination has received positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for the treatment of two types of lung cancer.
ViiV Healthcare has secured marketing authorisation from the European Commission (EC) for its Dovato (dolutegravir/lamivudine) to treat HIV-1 infection.
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