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FDA Accepts for Review Pfizer’s Supplemental Application for ABRILADA™ (adalimumab-afzb) Interchangeability

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Prior Approval Supplement (PAS) to the Biologics License Application (BLA) for ABRILADA™ (adalimumab-afzb) as an interchangeable biosimilar to Humira® (adalimumab). The Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA) goal date for an FDA decision is in Q4 2022. “An

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FDA Action Alert: MacroGenics and Amgen

The Pharma Data

MacroGenics , based in Rockville, Maryland, has a target action date of December 18 for its Biologics License Application (BLA) for margetuximab in combination with chemotherapy for patients with metastatic HER2+ breast cancer. Amgen’s ABP 798, a Biosimilar to Genentech’s Rituxan. Read on for this week’s.

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Separating the Hype from the Hyperbole Surrounding FDORA’s Alternatives to Animal Testing under the FD&C Act

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

As to biosimilars, FDORA amends the statutory language regarding criteria for the demonstration of biosimilarity for a 351(k) biologic. In 2019, FDA formed an agency-wide Alternative Methods Working Group indicating that it viewed the applicable scope of alternative methods to go beyond just toxicology research. 42 U.S.C. §

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European Commission vs Big Pharma, or profit vs access?  

Drug Discovery World

The commission is proposing the introduction of temporary emergency marketing authorisations 1. Extra foreign inspections Since July 2019, the MRA (Mutual Recognition Agreement) between the EU and the US FDA has been fully in force. He pointed out that Europe was the first region to approve biosimilars. You can compare timelines.

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Article EMA Thank You EMA’s 2023 new medicines report suggests return to pre-pandemic volume

Agency IQ

Seventeen products were orphan drugs, fourteen were generics and eight were biosimilars. When compared to the year immediately prior to the pandemic, however, 2023 actually marks an increase in volume, with only 70 opinions issued in 2019. Reviews of orphan medicines and biosimilars have remained stable over the past three years.

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FDA Grants Toripalimab Fast Track Designation for Mucosal Melanoma

The Pharma Data

Toripalimab was included in the 2019 and 2020 Guidelines of Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Melanoma. The results of the study were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in August 2019. and a disease control rate (DCR) of 86.2%

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Article FDA Thank You Following a 2018 draft framework, FDA unveils long-awaited PDURS draft guidance

Agency IQ

The goal of the framework , as described in a 2019 presentation from FDA staff on the subject, is to “provide prescription drug sponsors the flexibility to disseminate innovative software, while maintaining appropriate Agency oversight over the sponsors’ communications about their products.”

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