On February 5, 2025 Valneva SE (“Valneva”) announced that the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted marketing authorization for Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine, IXCHIQ. ...more
On September 27, 2024, Formycon AG (“Formycon”) and its commercialization partner Fresenius Kabi (“Fresenius”) jointly announced that the European Commission (EC) has issued a marketing authorization for FYB202/OTULFI™...more
As the life sciences industry continues to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does its legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving and emerging laws and...more
The FDA recently announced release of final transition guidance documents for medical diagnostic devices targeting COVID-19. The transition guidance documents are intended to guide COVID-19 diagnostic device manufactures as...more
On September 19, 2022, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines’ Agencies (HMA) issued a joint statement explaining their scientific rationale for determining that biosimilars approved in the EU...more
Teva announced today that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization for RANIVISIO, a biosimilar ranibizumab, for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Teva entered into a strategic...more
The Daily Report is a compilation of COVID-19 (coronavirus) news briefs from around the world to help life sciences and health care companies stay current in this challenging time....more
Fresenius Kabi announced on May 27, 2020 that the FDA “accepted for review the company’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for MSB11455,” a biosimilar candidate of NEULASTA (pegfilgrastim). According to the press release,...more
It has been a busy week so far for biosimilar developers, with multiple collaboration and commercialization deals announced. First, on November 4, Henlius and Ascentage Pharma announced that they entered into a...more
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
On Wednesday, Celltrion announced its completion of its Phase 3 clinical trial for Remsima SC, a subcutaneous version of its biosimilar Remsima® (infliximab). According to Celltrion, “[t]he subcutaneous formulation allows...more
Several biopharmaceutical developers recently announced significant regulatory submission activity in connection with biosimilar products in their pipelines. In addition to yesterday’s news about the U.S. FDA’s approval of...more
On December 8, 2017, Sandoz, a division of Novartis, announced data purportedly showing that its pegfilgrastim biosimilar candidate matches the reference biologic, Neulasta® in terms of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics,...more
We are continuing to see regulatory and commercial activity in the biologics space with companies pursuing new indications and approvals. Amgen announced today both the submission of a supplemental BLA to the FDA and an...more
The EMA announced on January 27 that Novartis and Sandoz have withdrawn their marketing application for their pegfilgrastim biosimilar (Zioxtenzo). The application was withdrawn after the Committee for Medicinal Products for...more