FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Valentine — On November 22, 2022, FDA approved CSL Behring’s BLA for Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), an AAV-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with Hemophilia B who currently use Factor IX prophylaxis therapy, have current or historical life-threatening hemorrhage, or have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Chiesi and Oak Hill Bio intend to continue a Phase IIb clinical trial in 2024 in the United States, Europe, and Japan. The agreement expands the collaboration initiated in February 2022 to include an additional target programme and names VantAI and Blueprint Medicines as the exclusive partners.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Merck has exercised its option to jointly develop and commercialise personalised cancer vaccine (PCV) mRNA-4157/V940 pursuant to the terms of its existing collaboration and license agreement with Moderna. . KEYNOTE-942 is an ongoing randomised, open-label Phase II trial that enrolled 157 patients with high-risk melanoma.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 20, 2023

Biological mechanisms Given its prevalence and potential economic, societal and patient burden, post-Covid cognitive impairment seems an important target for treatment, be that through existing rehabilitations services, or digital, drug or biologic therapies. New therapeutics of course depend on an understanding of biological mechanisms.

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MAY 6, 2024

In 2022, the continent held a 22.4% billion on R&D during 2021, with Germany and Switzerland being the biggest contributors, and around one fourth of clinical trials worldwide were performed in Europe 1. The CDD will sponsor and manage KWF-supported trials. share of global pharma revenues, according to analysts Statistica 1.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Medications containing semaglutide such as Ozempic, licensed for diabetes, and Wegovy, for weight loss, are being studied to see if they can treat a range of different conditions, including addiction and dementia. In February 2022, a Danish study showed that the dementia rate was lower in patients randomised to GLP-1 RAs versus placebo.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 18, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Priority Review designation for the Biologics License Application (BLA) for their mRNA vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 16 years of age and older. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date for a decision by the FDA is in January 2022.

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Nasdaq: GMDA), an advanced cell therapy company committed to cures for blood cancers and serious hematologic diseases, today announced that the company conducted a Type B Meeting for omidubicel with the U.S. The revised plan could support a potential commercial launch of omidubicel in the United States as early as mid-2022.

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DrugBank

AUGUST 15, 2024

To effectively navigate this ecosystem and expedite the development of new therapies, collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and academia is proving increasingly vital. This includes funding large-scale clinical trials and establishing robust manufacturing/distribution networks.

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JULY 2, 2024

In another example, university of Basel spin-off T3 Pharma reached Phase I development of a cancer therapy that harnesses the natural behaviours of live bacteria before being acquired by Boehringer Ingelheim for $509m at the end of 2023. Three years ago, we started our venture into the radiotherapy space. References [link] [link].

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Even still, these approved drug products require a licensed healthcare provider’s prescription. Significantly, in January 2023, the FDA finalised a 2020 draft guidance outlining how sponsors and investigators can conduct clinical trials for certain drugs containing cannabis or cannabis-derived compounds without running afoul of federal law 2.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A report by the medical charity LifeArc 1 puts the timeframe for a therapy brought to market through repurposing methods at anywhere from one to three years. Indeed, having a safety profile already established could entice patients to enter clinical trials more readily than with ‘unknown’ compounds. . However, challenges remain.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 31, 2023

But first, there is the urgency of getting the new drug application (NDA) or biologics license application (BLA) filing into the hands of the respective regulatory authorities. Greater insight into the entire biopharmaceutical lifecycle can improve the availability of effective therapies worldwide.

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Sygnature Discovery

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A new treatment for G4-targeted solid tumors including pancreatic cancer has been administered to patients for the first time in a Phase 1a clinical trial. This latest development follows the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving clearance for QN-302 in July 2023 to proceed to this initial clinical trial stage.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A company within this ecosystem is STORM Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company creating novel small molecule therapies that inhibit RNA modifying enzymes (RME) for use in oncology and other diseases. billion in funding. Northern Ireland “Northern Ireland is a medtech super-hub,” says Saleko.

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DrugBank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This involves assessing the strength and breadth of patents, evaluating the potential for future patent challenges, and analyzing the value derived from licensing agreements and royalty streams. GlaxoSmithKline's spin-off of its consumer healthcare division , Haleon, in 2022 is a case in point.

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Sygnature Discovery

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A new treatment for G4-targeted solid tumors including pancreatic cancer has been administered to patients for the first time in a Phase 1a clinical trial. This latest development follows the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving clearance for QN-302 in July 2023 to proceed to this initial clinical trial stage.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This ranges from understanding disease processes and identifying possible drug targets, to organising testing, rolling out clinical trials, negotiating complex regulations and licensing and finally, treating patients. Drug development and clinical trials: How drugs are discovered and developed as medicines.

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New Drug Approvals

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

2022 Aug;87(2):306-313. Epub 2022 Mar 29. August 2022). “Phase 2 randomized, dose-ranging trial of CTP-543, a selective Janus Kinase inhibitor, in moderate-to-severe alopecia areata” Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. -(cyclopentyl-2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5-d8)-4-(7h-pyrrolo(2,3-d)pyrimidin-4-yl)-, (.beta.r)-D8-ruxolitinib

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LifeSciVC

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Aimee Raleigh, Principal at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC Just in time for new years’ reflections and resolutions, this year’s JPM felt like a refreshing burst of enthusiasm for a sector that has seen its challenges in 2022 and 2023 but also some green shoots. Additional trials (e.g.,

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

million from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, the company plans to begin a Phase Ia clinical trial evaluating its lead tau self- association small molecule inhibitor OLX-07010. . million in 2022 to 12.7 Diseases such as PSP and FTD have no licensed and available treatments.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Moreover, an extra six months of RDP for drugs with full comparator clinical trials (rather than showing only that a drug is no worse than the standard of care). Will this be a viable solution? Clinical trials The draft outlines the requirement for clinical trials in children where a drug is approved in adults for a different disease.

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New Drug Approvals

DECEMBER 24, 2023

“Characteristics of Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis-Polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN) in NEURO-TTRansform, an Open-label Phase 3 Study of Eplontersen” Neurology and Therapy. December 2022). 1] It is a transthyretin-directed antisense oligonucleotide. [1] 12 (1): 267–287. doi : 10.1007/s40120-022-00414-z.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Under the agreement, which may generate revenue for BioInvent of up to SEK 30 million , BioInvent will provide process development, scale-up, supply of material for toxicological studies and clinical grade material in 1000L scale for use in phase I and II clinical trials. The Company’s validated, proprietary F.I.R.S.T

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 20, 2023

The accelerated approval was based on Phase 2 data that demonstrated that lecanemab reduced the accumulation of Aβ plaque in the brain, a defining feature of AD, and its continued approval may be contingent upon verification of lecanemab’s clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial. productivity loss and informal care costs). In the U.S.,

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LifeSciVC

JANUARY 25, 2024

Testing drugs that make it into clinical trials has its own specific challenges. Designing trials to show safety and efficacy in people and doing it in a way that complies with all the regulatory and ethical guidelines is where many drugs fail. We have never seen the number of layoffs in biotech that happened in 2022 and 2023… ever.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Results from these preclinical studies were published in the peer-reviewed publication, Journal of Immunology in August 2022 as a “Top Read” article. Could you explain the development of CNP-108 for T cell immunogenicity in gene therapy, and how it induces the immune system to build a tolerance to gene therapy treatments?

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The Pharma Data

MAY 31, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for priority review the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Dupixent® (dupilumab) to treat adults with prurigo nodularis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease that causes extreme itch and skin lesions. The target action date for the FDA decision is September 30, 2022.

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APRIL 19, 2022

tumour response rate If approved, Enhertu to provide patients with a much-needed targeted therapy option. 1 The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date, the FDA action date for their regulatory decision, is during the third quarter of 2022. The application has also been granted Priority Review.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If the confirmatory trial shows that the drug actually provides a clinical benefit, then the FDA grants traditional approval for the drug. If the confirmatory trial does not show that the drug provides clinical benefit, FDA has regulatory procedures in place that could lead to removing the drug from the market. FDA-2022-E-3124 ).

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APRIL 4, 2022

The target action date for the FDA decision on this investigational use is August 3, 2022. The sBLA is supported by data from two Phase 3 trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of Dupixent 300 mg weekly in patients aged 12 years and older with EoE ( Part A and Part B ), and data from an active long-term extension trial.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Breast cancer retained its position as the most-studied disease area in clinical trials in 2022, according to a recent report by analytics company Phesi. Here, we take a look at the top four disease areas and some of the key developments in 2022. Capivasertib could offer a completely new treatment option for these patients.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Here, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong explores the global hubs of innovation for cell and gene therapies. Since the approval of Kymirah in 2017, the cell and gene therapy sector has emerged as an exciting and innovative market, representing some of the most promising drugs the pharmaceutical industry has ever seen. .

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 27, 2023

It is also an off-the-shelf therapy, meaning that people do not have to wait for cell collection and genetic engineering before starting treatment, which could be particularly important for patients who are at a high-risk of their disease progressing. “New Columvi has the potential to change the current standard of care in DLBCL.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Novavax licensed and transferred its manufacturing technologies to enable Takeda to develop and manufacture the vaccine at its facility in Hikari. Interim results from the Phase 1/2 study in Japan were positive and consistent with previously reported clinical trial results. TAK-019 Clinical Trial.

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JULY 22, 2021

ARV-471 is currently in a Phase 2 dose expansion clinical trial for the treatment of patients with estrogen receptor (ER) positive / human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative (ER+/HER2-) locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The estrogen receptor is a well-known disease driver in most breast cancers.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced the submission of a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the U.S. FDA is anticipated in late 2022. “As A decision from the U.S. Vice President, Rheumatology Disease Area Leader, Janssen Research & Development, LLC.

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