sickle cell disease
Oct 29, 2024
FDA Grants Orphan Status to MDL-101 for LAMA2-CMD; Pfizer’s ABRYSVO Approved for High-Risk Adults (18-59); KIND’s AND017 Gains Orphan Designation for Sickle Cell Disease; HiberCell’s HC-7366 Fast-Tracked for AML; ORLYNVAH Approved for Uncomplicated UTIs
FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status to MDL-101 for LAMA2-CMD Treatment Modalis Therapeutics Corporation has received Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) from the FDA for MDL-101, its promising treatment for congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A (LAMA2-CMD). This designation is a significant step, aimed at fostering the deve...
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Oct 01, 2024
IntraBio’s AQNEURSA Niemann-Pick Disease Approval; FDA Approves Novel Schizophrenia Drug After 35 Years; Selpercatinib Gets FDA Nod for RET-Mutated MTC; DUPIXENT Receives First-Ever COPD Approval; Pfizer Withdraws OXBRYTA for Sickle Cell Disease from Global Market
IntraBio's AQNEURSA Receives Historic FDA Approval for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Treatment IntraBio Inc. has received approval from the FDA for AQNEURSA (levacetylleucine), marking a significant milestone in the treatment of neurological manifestations of Niemann-Pick disease type C in both adults and pe...
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Dec 15, 2023
Lyfgenia or Casgevy: Who Will Lead the Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Space?
History has been created as the world captures the significance of the FDA’s approval of Casgevy (exa-cel), a collaboration between Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). This groundbreaking therapy represents a long-awaited potential cure for the debilitatin...
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Dec 12, 2023
Merck and Moderna Initiate Study to Evaluate V940; FDA Approves Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics’ CASGEVY for SCD; Novartis Updated on its Investigational Iptacopan Phase III Study; FDA Grants Priority Review for New Drug Application for Elafibranor; FDA Approves bluebird bio’s LYFGENIA for Patients SCD; FDA Fast Track Designation for DMD Gene Therapy
Merck and Moderna Initiate INTerpath-002, a Phase III Study Evaluating V940 in Combination with KEYTRUDA for Adjuvant Treatment of Patients with Certain Types of Resected NSCLC Merck (also known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) and Moderna, Inc. have commenced the INTerpath-002 trial—a crucial Phase ...
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Jun 09, 2023
Cell and Gene Therapies in Rare Disorders: From Rarity to Recovery
The cell and gene therapy market has seen a revolutionary transition in recent years, with advancements in scientific research and novel methods of treatment driving a rise in development activities. This has resulted in an increase in the number of cell and gene therapy choices available to patients suffering from...
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May 30, 2023
FDA Approves Lexicon’s INPEFA (Sotagliflozin); PTC Therapeutics’s Vatiquinone MOVE-FA Registration-Directed Trial; EU Approval to Novartis’s Sickle Cell Disease Drug; EMA Approves Neoadjuvant Nivolumab/Chemotherapy in Resectable NSCLC; FDA Grants Priority Review to Fruquintinib for mCRC; FDA Orphan Drug Designation to Vega Therapeutics’s VGA039
Lexicon Announces FDA Approval of INPEFA (Sotagliflozin) For Treatment of Heart Failure Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the FDA has approved INPEFATM (sotagliflozin), a once-daily oral tablet, to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, hospitalization for heart failure, and urgent heart failure vis...
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Apr 14, 2023
Vertex/CRISPR’s Gene-editing Therapy exa-cel: Inch Ahead of Rival
Vertex Pharma and CRISPR Therapeutics are the first companies to seek FDA clearance for a gene-editing therapy. Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have gotten closer to introducing exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), a one-time treatment for sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta-...
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Jan 31, 2023
Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca Approval; Novartis’ Adakveo EMA Review; Janssen’s CARTITUDE-4 Study of CARVYKTI; Negative Review on Ipsen’s Palovarotene; Gilead Sciences and Kite’s Yescarta NICE Recommendations; Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s Enhertu EU Approval
FDA Approves Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca for Relapsed Mantle Cell Lymphoma Eli Lilly has received FDA approval for Jaypirca, a non-covalent BTK inhibitor, in relapsed mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients who have relapsed after treatment with other drugs in the class. Adult MCL patients who have previously received at l...
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Sep 06, 2022
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for Biliary Tract Cancer; FDA Clears Boehringer’s Spesolimab; Novo Nordisk to Acquire Forma Therapeutics; Sanofi’s Xenpozyme Approved for ASMD; Another FDA Approval to Azurity’s Konvomep; Amgen’s Lumakras Trial Results; FDA Grants Priority Review to Sanofi & Sobi’s efanesoctocog alfa; Neurocrine Bio to Takeover UK Biotech Diurnal
FDA Approves AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for Biliary Tract Cancer Imfinzi, a checkpoint inhibitor developed by AstraZeneca, has been approved by the FDA as the first immunotherapy for biliary tract cancer (BTC), a rare and aggressive form of cancer with few treatment options. Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved by ...
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Aug 09, 2022
FDA Approves AstraZeneca’s Enhertu; Bayer Wins FDA Approval for Prostate Cancer Therapy, Nubeqa; Gilead Sciences to Acquire MiroBio; AstraZeneca & Merck’s Lynparza Gets EU Approval; Pfizer to Acquire Global Blood Therapeutics; Sironax Raises USD 200 Million
FDA Approves AstraZeneca’s Enhertu as First Targeted Therapy for HER2-low Cancer Enhertu, developed by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, has been approved by the FDA as the first targeted therapy for HER2-low breast cancer, a new subtype of the disease previously categorized as HER2-negative. It has the potential ...
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