Quality/GMPs

After a review of three cases, EMA's PRAC has advised against the use of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine in people who have a history of capillary leak syndrome.

EMA's PRAC has found a possible link to very rare cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination with Comirnaty and Spikevax COVID-19 vaccines.

As recent COVID-19 vaccine facility citations make clear, failure to meet cleaning and sanitization requirements puts patients, facilities, and operators at risk.

White House proposal includes measure to make drugs more affordable.

FDA’s review and approval of Aduhelm triggers controversy and a call for review from within the Agency.

Tezepelumab, being developed by AstraZeneca in collaboration with Amgen, reduced asthma exacerbations in Phase II and III clinical trials.

The approved changes to the API manufacturing plant in Leiden, the Netherlands will enable an increase in API capacity.

The rise of COVID variants has made public health officials anxious to expand immunity more widely and quickly in areas with low vaccination rates, and experts hope that full approval of existing and new vaccines will increase public confidence in their value.

New biologic modalities, such as cell and gene therapies, pose increasing difficulties in viral clearance testing methods.

Help prevent contamination in a facility by zone.

A structured assessment process can determine compliance to lifecycle process-validation requirements for biopharmaceuticals.

The industry has made great strides in implementing serialization technologies, while technology developers are enabling more open access to real-time transportation data.

HHS is tasked with establishing a public-private consortium for advanced domestic pharmaceutical production.

Regulatory inspection reports can be a valuable resource for quality management, according to Siegfried Schmitt, vice president, Technical at Parexel.

An updated version of legislation to modernize clinical research policies and FDA expedited approval pathways is circulating on Capitol Hill.

Reports of myocarditis and pericarditis following Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccinations prompts warnings.

Amgen’s Aimovig has become the first and only approved treatment in Japan for treating migraine attacks in adults by blocking the CGRP-R.

FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to donanemab, Eli Lilly and Co.’s investigational antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

The European Commission has purchased an additional 150 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for delivery in 2022.

EMA's recent positive opinion for a recombinant vaccine for rabbits developed using Algenex’s proprietary and patent protected Baculovirus vector-mediated expression platform, CrisBio, should push the full commercialization of the platform forward.

Ilya Pharma has been granted approval by the Swedish Medical Product Agency and Swedish Ethical Review Authority for initiation of a Phase II clinical trial of its ILP100 gene therapy.

FDA's CDER has launched an initiative to gain more efficient and transparent operations of its advisory panels.

The guidance provides recommendations for including premenopausal women in breast cancer clinical trials.

The final guidance document is intended to help determine which reporting category is appropriate for a change in CMC information to an approved biologics application.

The US government will invest $3 billion from the American Rescue Plan into a COVID-19 antiviral development strategy.

The agency approved two batches of drug substance manufactured at the Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore for use in the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.

The new site in Monts, France, which is operated by Recipharm, will produce finished COVID-19 vaccine product.

As a safety measure, supervisory authorities in the European Union have recommended not releasing batches of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine with API manufactured at Emergent BioSolutions’ Maryland facility.

Immodulon has received an indication of allowability from the European Patent Office for the claims in its patent application relating to its lead drug candidate.

FDA’s approval of Biogen’s treatment for Alzheimer’s disease has raised questions about the agency’s accelerated approval process.