Outlook 2024
Annual Industry Ranking And Forecast
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At a Senate subcommittee hearing, the FDA commissioner says advisory committees remain important but need to be “meeting the purpose for which they exist.”
Under the new scheme, contract payments for antimicrobial products of up to £20m a year will be based on clinical award criteria with a points-based scoring system derived from experience with the pilot scheme.
FDA leadership has generally seemed apprehensive of going too hard on companies that don’t meet clinical trial diversity goals, but some industry insiders say a stronger FDA is needed to spark real change. Delayed guidance could indicate if the agency will change course.
House appropriations subcommittee chair Andy Harris, R-MD, says the agency ignored several important factors in recommending that marijuana be reclassified as a Schedule III drug; Califf tells ranking member Sanford Bishop, D-GA, that although work is progressing on animal testing alternatives, 'we're a long way right now' from eliminating animal studies before first-in-human trials.
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More PodcastsIn a year full of regulatory milestones for the firm, PTC Therapeutics hopes to set some approval precedents – and basically hopes its candidates have an easier time of it than they have had before.
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After creating a list of anticipated product-specific guidances to be published for generic sponsors and increasing PSG production, public requests for the agency to write a PSG declined.
The schedule for the second round of negotiations is different from the first cycle, in part because the Inflation Reduction Act allowed for extra time initially as the program launched. The first- and second-year timelines also overlap: The second negotiation cycle will begin before the first cycle prices are implemented.
The new tool provides a way of quantifying the degree of diversity by race/ethnicity, sex and age in clinical trials, but the results will not factor into the US health technology assessment body’s cost effectiveness determinations for new drugs.
There are pending requests to add 13 candidates to the tropical diseases that qualify for a priority review voucher, according to a Pink Sheet analysis, as FDA Commissioner Robert Califf faces congressional pressure on the years since the list's last update.
EMA charges participants to receive scientific advice through the fledgling program, unlike the US FDA, which may not fit the budgets of some complex generic sponsors. At the same time, sponsors also may simply not be aware the program exists yet.
Acknowledging that it may be a barrier to some extent, EMA’s senior scientific specialist of clinical pharmacology Kevin Blake notes that EU reference medicinal products are a legal requirement for bioequivalence studies and cannot be circumvented.
While EU preparations are underway to introduce strict legal requirements for all AI systems, the UK has doubled down on its flexible, non-regulatory framework. In this second of a two-part article, a lawyer explains the pros and cons of each for pharma and medtech firms.
Flexible thinking and rigorous standards will both be needed to develop psychedelics as drug therapies in order to surmount the many complicating factors, from unique ‘set and setting’ aspects to functional unblinding, speakers at Reagan-Udall Foundation meeting agree.
Adult immunization programs can save “billions” for society, but their value is underestimated because of challenges around measuring broader value evidence and a lack of incentives for companies to collect this data, says the Office of Health Economics.
A co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body says that whatever happens over the coming fortnight, a report on the outcome of the talks will be delivered to the World Health Assembly at the end of this month.
The European Medicines Agency has developed draft recommendations on the key methodological factors to consider when conducting and assessing observational studies with real-world data for regulatory decision-making throughout a medicine's lifecycle.
Administrative constraints adds Moderna’s mRNA-1345 to the recently increasing number of US FDA user fee goal date misses.
The Pink Sheet's list of EU centralized approvals of new active substances has been updated to add three new products, including Zynyz, Incyte's treatment for Merkel cell carcinoma.
US FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Namandjé Bumpus recently attended a biotech-themed roundtable with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and national security officials as Congress’ pulls the FDA into its worries about Chinese influence of the pharma industry.
But that clock is already ticking as the House Oversight and Accountability Committee prepares to mark-up the bill and a likely reconciliation effort with the Senate looming.
The proposed US BIOSECURE Act is heading to a full committee vote amid heightening tensions, underscored by new US Congressional Oversight Committee letters to the FDA asking it to examine national security threats posed by Chinese 'biotechs of concern.'
Newly announced US FDA advisory committee meetings on Lilly’s Alzheimer’s antibody, Lykos’ pioneering psychedelic therapy for PTSD relieve drought in non-oncology AdComms as the 2024-‘25 COVID vaccine strain selection meeting is postponed.
Recent and upcoming US FDA advisory committee meetings and a summary of the topics covered.
Drawing references from the EU and US guidelines for decentralized clinical trials, the Egyptian FDA has framed draft requirements that sponsors should consider when planning to use off-site nurses in their drug and medical device studies.
A one-time gene therapy candidate for Gaucher disease, an allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy for difficult-to-treat blood cancers, and a potentially first-in-class drug for treating hyperphenylalaninemia have made it onto the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines scheme.
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