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Generic Launches Second Quarter 2025

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This chart tracks the date, drug, reference-listed company, applicant, and indications of publicly available drug launches resulting from Abbreviated New Drug Applications and 505(b)(2) Applications....more

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FDA Approves First Interchangeable NovoLog® (insulin aspart): Biocon’s Kirsty™

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On July 15, 2025, the FDA approved Biocon’s Kirsty™ (insulin aspart-xjhz) as the first interchangeable biosimilar of Novo Nordisk’s NovoLog® (insulin aspart). ...more

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FDA adds information on Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program

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This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted additional information on its recently announced “Commissioner's National Priority Voucher” (CNPV) program, which will provide up to five vouchers in the program's...more

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FDA Transparency Push: CRLs Released

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On July 10, 2025, citing a drive to increase transparency, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) published more than 200 complete response letters (CRLs) previously issued to companies that had submitted new drug...more

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FDA Publishes More Than 200 Complete Response Letters (CRLs) With More to Come

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On July 10, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had published more than 200 complete response letters (CRLs), in response to applications submitted to the FDA for approval of drugs or biological...more

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FDA’s Push for “Radical Transparency”: Key Takeaways from the Agency’s Publication of Complete Response Letters

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On July 10, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced publication of over 200 complete response letters (CRLs) issued in response to applications submitted to FDA for approval of drugs or biologics between...more

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FDA launches “Elsa” AI tool to aid drug approvals

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has introduced “Elsa,” a generative AI tool designed to enhance the efficiency of its regulatory operations. Elsa's deployment comes nearly a month ahead of the agency’s original...more

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ANDA Approvals

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New Drug Applications and 505(B)(2) Applications - This chart tracks the date, drug, reference-listed company, and applicant of Abbreviated New Drug Applications and 505(b)(2) Applications receiving final approval by the FDA....more

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Two Days, Two Hearings: NIH and FDA Nominees Go Before the HELP Committee

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Dr. Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya, nominated to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Martin Makary, nominated to be the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), appeared before the...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

FDA’s Drug Review Gold Standard

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, has said one of his mandates from the president-elect is to return agencies to the gold standard of scientific review. This...more

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Biologics and Biosimilars Landscape: IP, Policy, and Market Developments

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In this review, we discuss the most important recent developments in the biosimilars space, including new biosimilar approvals and launches, litigation under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA),...more

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FDA Issues New Guidance on Charging for Investigational Drugs

Conducting a clinical trial is a notoriously expensive endeavor that is necessary not only for ultimate drug approval, but even to progress to the next phase of drug investigation and development. An unfortunate consequence...more

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And So It Begins: House Energy and Commerce Leaders Unveil FDA User Fees Legislative Package

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On May 4, 2022, House Energy and Commerce (“E&C”) Committee leaders unveiled the legislative package to reauthorize the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) user fee agreements (the “House Draft”)...more

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Review of FDA’s 2021 Drug Approvals – Small Molecules Dominate

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The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 50 new drugs and biological products in 2021 (not including the vaccines, cellular and gene therapy products, or other products approved in 2021 by the Center...more

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A Magic Mixing Cauldron for the 21st Century: FDA’s new guidances on using real-world data in regulatory decision-making

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In December 2016, fifteen Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including then-Commissioner Robert Califf and current Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine...more

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A Closer Look at Accelerated Approval and Confirmatory Trials

The accelerated approval pathway (i.e., the pathway that permits FDA to rely on surrogate or intermediate endpoints for the approval of a drug for serious conditions with unmet medical needs) has proven to be an important...more

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FDA seeks comments on how to transition approved drug products to device status under Genus - Major regulatory changes for imaging...

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On August 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a notice announcing its implementation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s April 2021 decision in Genus Medical Technologies LLC v. U.S. Food...more

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FDA Grants Historic Approval for Alzheimer's Disease Therapy in Permissive Decision

On June 7, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Biogen, Inc.'s Aduhelm (aducanumab) to treat Alzheimer's disease through the FDA Accelerated Approval Program in a landmark decision. The FDA's approval...more

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First year of Project Orbis leads to 38 approvals of cancer therapies, including 8 by Health Canada

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Update: In the Mid-year update: Health products approved in 2021, Health Canada reported the approval of two additional cancer drugs in collaboration with Project Orbis partners between January and June 2021 – Retevmo...more

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Digital Health Report - Q4 2020

In this issue, we discuss how real-world evidence can be an important component of satisfying drug approval and post-approval study requirements and also, can provide other tangible advantages to drug sponsors. We also look...more

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[Virtual Event] FDA Boot Camp - September 23rd - 24th, 8:15 am - 12:45 pm EDT

For over 15 years, ACI’s FDA Boot Camp has been the Training Grounds for Life Sciences Attorneys and Executives to Master the Fundamentals of FDA Regulation. Now the conference returns for its 37th iteration, in a fully...more

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New FDA inspection program released for “streamlined approach” for combination product cGMP

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On June 4, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated the Compliance Program Guidance Manual (CPGM) to include a program for “Inspections of CDER-led or CDRH-led Combination Products.”...more

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Fast Track for COVID-19 Drug and Vaccine Approval in the United States and Europe

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic poses an acute health risk to the population. One key to successfully combating COVID-19 lies in clinical research. Currently, almost all major research-based pharmaceutical companies, many...more

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Project Orbis enables concurrent regulatory approval of LENVIMA and KEYTRUDA combination therapy in Canada, U.S. and Australia

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On September 17, 2019, the combination therapy of Eisai’s LENVIMA (lenvatinib) and Merck’s KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of advanced endometrial carcinoma received simultaneous approvals by Health Canada, the...more

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New drug marketing applications: how do EMA and FDA compare?

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A newly-published study has compared more than a hundred new drug marketing applications at both the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the period 2014-2016. The study examined the...more

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