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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This of course, make sense—after decades of experience implementing the Hatch-Waxman, Congress and FDA had learned a few new tricks by 2009/2010. Specifically, Boehringer asked FDA to interpret “strength” for biosimilars to mean “total drug content” to the exclusion of “concentration.” mg) and the concentration (e.g.,

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You Updated guidance on promotional labeling for biosimilars and interchangeables emphasizes a similar approach

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APRIL 26, 2024

Updated guidance on promotional labeling for biosimilars and interchangeables emphasizes a similar approach Today, the FDA issued a revised draft guidance on the development of promotional labeling for biosimilars, reference products, and—newly—interchangeable products. regarding its administration, preparation, storage, or safety).

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Every Day Counts for PTE: Court Finds FDA’s Reinterpretation of Testing Phase Arbitrary and Capricious

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

AUGUST 12, 2024

As with other FDA-regulated products, such as human drugs and medical devices, the “regulatory review period” is composed of a “testing phase” and a “review phase.” FDA’s PTE regulations at 21 C.F.R. The “review phase” is the period between the initial submission and approval of the NADA. When the U.S. While Nissan et al.

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The Active Ingredient Stands Alone

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JULY 11, 2023

As a result of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) passed in 2010, the definition of a “biological product” expanded to include “proteins.” To set the stage for this case, we need to go back to March 2020 , when a new definition of “biological product” threw the world of protein products into a tizzy.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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510(k) Modernization 2023

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Adrienne R. Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — On September 6, 2023, FDA announced its latest efforts to modernize the 510(k) process, outlining FDA’s latest improvements to strengthen the 510(k) Program and announcing release of three draft guidance documents.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You BsUFA III regulatory science pilot offers progress report, fields stakeholder criticisms and questions

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

BsUFA III regulatory science pilot offers progress report, fields stakeholder criticisms and questions This week, FDA and its grantees briefed stakeholders on the status of research projects funded through the Biosimilar User Fee Act (BSUFA III) Regulatory Science Pilot Program. Developing biosimilars is an extensive and expensive process.

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Article EMA Thank You What will the orphan drug market exclusivity haircut mean for industry?

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JUNE 9, 2023

Just over a month ago, the European Commission released its proposal for the new pharmaceutical directive and regulation. BY KIRSTEN MESSMER, PHD, RAC JUN 5, 2023 10:14 PM CDT Regulatory Background: How things work now Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 (the Orphan Regulation) provides the legal framework for orphan drug designations and incentives.

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The Fourth Circuit Upholds CMS’ Definition of “Line-Extension Drug” and “New Formulation”

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

APRIL 16, 2024

To address concerns that manufacturers were making minor changes to drugs in order for them to be characterized as new covered outpatient drugs with updated (and higher) baseline AMPs, Congress amended the statute in 2010 to add an alternative rebate for line extensions of oral dosage form single source or innovator multiple source drugs (i.e.,

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CMS Definition of “New Formulation” Upheld in Federal Court

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2010, concerned that manufacturers were making minor changes to a drug merely so that it could be characterized as new covered outpatient drug with an updated baseline AMP, Congress added to the statute an alternative rebate for line extensions of oral dosage form innovator (i.e., See our memo summarizing CMS’s regulation here.

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Long Time Passing: Where Have All the De Novo Decision Summaries Gone?

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

AUGUST 18, 2024

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Jeffrey N. Since 2010, FDA has posted classification orders and decision summaries for devices classified through the De Novo classification process. The classification order identifies the special controls and therefore is extremely important.

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Amgen Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Product sales increased 3% globally, driven by double digit volume growth across a number of our products including Prolia ® (denosumab), Repatha ® (evolocumab) and our biosimilar products MVASI ® (bevacizumab-awwb) and KANJINTI ® (trastuzumab-anns). AMGEVITA continued to be the most prescribed adalimumab biosimilar in Europe.

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Article FDA Thank You FDA unveils long-awaited Patient Medication Information proposed rule

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JUNE 2, 2023

The regulator sent the rule to the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) on October 4, 2022. These prototypes, and the intended form and function of a PMI for prescription drugs, were further refined in a series of workshops with the Brookings Institute between 2010 and 2014.

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WORLD’S LARGEST BROWSABLE RESOURCE LINKING RARE PROTEIN-CODING GENETIC VARIANTS TO HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE

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JULY 8, 2021

UK Biobank recruited 500,000 people aged between 40-69 years in 2006-2010 from across the UK. One of the world’s first global biotechnology companies, Biogen was founded in 1978 by Charles Weissmann, Heinz Schaller, Kenneth Murray and Nobel Prize winners Walter Gilbert and Phillip Sharp.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

2010) , however, the U.S. For several years, the PTO interpreted the term “product” to mean “active moiety” rather than “active ingredient” ( i.e. , the ion or molecule, excluding salts, esters, etc., responsible for the pharmacological action of a drug, instead of the ion or molecule including salts, esters and other derivatives).

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Article EMA Thank You MHRA introduces an expanded international recognition procedure, while planning to sunset the current EC reliance pathway

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

s MHRA unveiled details of its new International Recognition Procedure, which will allow the MHRA to rely on marketing authorizations by reference regulators from several countries for a wide range of products, including generics and those that received expedited review. from the E.U. pharmaceutical law ceased to apply to the U.K.

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

Analysis Life Sciences Thank You Updated guidance on promotional labeling for biosimilars and interchangeables emphasizes a similar approach

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Every Day Counts for PTE: Court Finds FDA’s Reinterpretation of Testing Phase Arbitrary and Capricious

The Active Ingredient Stands Alone

A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

510(k) Modernization 2023

Analysis Life Sciences Thank You BsUFA III regulatory science pilot offers progress report, fields stakeholder criticisms and questions

Article EMA Thank You What will the orphan drug market exclusivity haircut mean for industry?

The Fourth Circuit Upholds CMS’ Definition of “Line-Extension Drug” and “New Formulation”

CMS Definition of “New Formulation” Upheld in Federal Court

Long Time Passing: Where Have All the De Novo Decision Summaries Gone?

Amgen Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results

Article FDA Thank You FDA unveils long-awaited Patient Medication Information proposed rule

WORLD’S LARGEST BROWSABLE RESOURCE LINKING RARE PROTEIN-CODING GENETIC VARIANTS TO HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE

Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

Article EMA Thank You MHRA introduces an expanded international recognition procedure, while planning to sunset the current EC reliance pathway

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