Regulatory/GMP Compliance, Europe

The agency is recommending the extension of the smallpox and mpox vaccine, Imvanex, to adolescents aged 12 to 17.

The agency is evaluating risks associated with the painkiller metamizole. It is also reviewing the risk of secondary malignancies in patients treated with CAR T-cell medicines.

The approval, given across three indications, follows a previous approval for second-line use in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

The Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network, DARWIN EU, is planning to add 10 new data partners in 2024.

Steffen Thirstrup, chief medical officer, EMA, emphasizes the importance of transparency in investigating potential safety issues of CAR-T therapies, while highlighting the need to balance regulatory diligence with maintaining trust within the community and among stakeholders.

The agency has recommended granting marketing authorization to ALS treatment, Qalsody (tofersen), for adults who have a mutation in the superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) gene.

Steffen Thirstrup, chief medical officer of the EMA, discusses manufacturing supply, drug shortages, commercial incentives, politics, and patient wellbeing.

Two public electronic catalogues will be available for real-world data sources and for real-world data studies.

An interview with Steffen Thirstrup, chief medical officer, European Medicines Agency (EMA).

The agency will coordinate intra-regional medicines regulation to strengthen the African regulatory network.

The agency is reviewing data on secondary malignancies related to T-cells for approved CAR T-cell medicines.

The European Medicines Agency safety committee says there is a potential risk of neurodevelopment disorders in children born to men treated with valproate.

The midterm report of the European Medicines Agencies Network Strategy finds that the network has strengthened and is on track to achieve its objectives.

The Multi-annual AI Workplan creates a strategy to maximize the benefits and manage the risks of artificial intelligence.

Regulators in the European Union have published the first version a list of critical medicines in the EU to avoid potential shortages.

Recommended medicines include treatments for generalized myasthenia gravis, glioma, neovascular age-related macular degeneration, and more.

Electronic product information for selected human medicines that have been harmonized across the European Union have been published for the first time.

The EC is calling for interested parties for their safety and orphan drug committees.

The agency’s solidarity mechanism allows Member States to support each other when there is a shortage of a critical medicines.

Sterling is known as a global contract development and manufacturing organization, and their network spreads to a manufacturing site in Cramlington, United Kingdom, a recently GMP-licensed dedicated bioconjugation facility in Deeside, and a 111-acre site in Ringaskiddy, Ireland.

The agency recommended conditional marketing authorization for Elrexfio (elranatamab) as a monotherapy for adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma.

The recommended medicines include treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, hyperargininemia, invasive candidiasis, menopause symptoms, and diagnostic medicines for characterizing lesions.

What impact will EMA’s decision to phase out COVID-19 regulatory flexibilities have on the pharma industry?

Further expansions of the pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services of ten23 are happening at the BASE and VIVA facilities to continue to support complex sterile product development, testing, and manufacturing.

The framework is now expanded beyond COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

The paper highlights the potential of AI in the medicinal product lifecycle and the approach that developers should take with it.

These recommendations will keep key antibiotics for respiratory infections available when they are needed most.

The agency is reviewing the medicines after receiving reports of self-injury and suicidal thoughts in patients using the type 2 diabetes treatments.

The agency’s safety committee is reviewing hydroxyprogesterone medicines and issuing a reminder on safety issues regarding fluoroquinolone antibiotics.