Tyler Patchen News Reporter Ipca Laboratories, an India-based maker of active pharmaceutical ingredients, was cited for several quality and testing issues during a recent FDA inspection. The FDA inspected an Ipca manufacturing facility in Ratlam, India, between June 5 and June 13, and investigators made a total of 11 observations. The FDA said the company failed to properly investigate root causes for deficient API batches. In April, Ipca had received a complaint saying there were “metal-like particles and magnet particles” in some products. The regulator also said the facility’s quality unit did not issue a recall of an unnamed product that did not meet specific impurity standards. Inspectors found that Ipca did not conduct the correct contamination testing of a drug substance that was redacted from the report and therefore was not aware of potential hazards. Laboratory tests on manufactured APIs were found to be deficient by inspectors, as were ...
Chinese gene therapy company Skyline will initiate a global trial investigating a gene therapy to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), after receiving clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA granted the company’s investigational new drug (IND) application for a Phase I/IIa trial of SKG0106 – a one-time intravitreally delivered adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy. Skyline has not disclosed when it expects to initiate the trial. Skyline Therapeutics’ candidate encompasses a new AAV capsid and unique transgene genome encoding an anti-VEGF protein. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a protein that promotes the growth of new blood vessels and also makes vessels more permeable or leaky. Patients with macular degeneration secrete too much of this protein. The company’s anti-angiogenic treatment is able to suppress neovascular lesions at a low dose with durable effects from a single injection. The prevention of neovascularisation provides relief of vascular leakage ...
The FDA turned down the closely watched eye med because of manufacturing problems the agency spotted at a third-party drug filler, Regeneron said in a release. The FDA didn’t flag any issues with the med’s efficacy and safety or its labeling and drug substance manufacturing and didn’t request additional clinical data, the company said. In a race against Roche’s Vabysmo, Regeneron and its partner Bayer’s application for the 8 mg Eylea (aflibercept) version was accepted in February, hoping for approval in wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema and diabetic retinopathy. Despite the hurdle, Regeneron remains “committed to working closely with the FDA and the third-party filler” to introduce the high-dose drug, the company said. A Regeneron spokesperson declined to comment on the identity of the filler or where it’s located. Elsewhere, the FDA recently published a Form 483 against an Eli Lilly plant in Indianapolis after an inspection in ...
By Tristan Manalac Pictured: BioMarin headquarters/iStock, Michael Vi The FDA has approved BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s valoctocogene roxaparvovec-rvox, to be marketed as Roctavian in the U.S., for the treatment of adult patients with severe hemophilia A, the company announced Thursday. Roctavian, a one-time single-dose infusion, is authorized for use only in adults without antibodies against the adeno-associated virus serotype 5 (AAV5), as determined by an FDA-approved test. It is also the first gene therapy approved for hemophilia A, according to BioMarin’s news release. In an investor call Thursday afternoon, BioMarin Chief Commercial Officer Jeff Ajer said that “the product profile of Roctavian presents tremendous value to patients, including bleed control, good safety profile and freedom from the burden of chronic therapy.” Roctavian is “priced at a wholesale acquisition cost, or WAC, that equates to $2.9 million for the typical patient for this one-time, single-dose treatment,” Ajer said. Hemophilia A is an inherited ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved CellTrans’ Lantidra (donislecel) as the first cellular therapy to treat patients with type 1 diabetes. The authorisation specifically applies to adults who are unable to meet their target blood glucose levels because they have repeated episodes of severe low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia), despite intensive disease management and education. Almost 1.9 million people in the US have type 1 diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. The condition requires lifelong care, including the regular administration of insulin, either through multiple daily injections or continuous infusion using a pump. However, some patients have trouble managing the amount of insulin needed every day, and dosing becomes difficult. These patients may also develop hypoglycaemia unawareness, where they are unable to detect that their blood glucose is dropping and may not have a chance to treat themselves. Lantidra, which is administered initially as a single infusion, ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that Lantidra, a cellular therapy for type 1 diabetes (T1D), has become the first treatment of its kind to be approved. Lantidra is an allogeneic (donor) pancreatic islet cellular therapy made from deceased donor pancreatic cells. The approval applies to adults with ‘brittle’ T1D – those unable to reach target glycated haemoglobin (average blood glucose levels) due to repeated severe hypoglycaemic episodes, despite intensive diabetes management and education. T1D accounts for roughly 5%-10% of all diabetes cases. Within this population, an even smaller group, approximately three out of every 1,000 people with T1D, suffer from ‘brittle’ disease. The therapy works by essentially replacing the body’s insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. This is achieved through allogeneic islet beta cells that secrete insulin, administered as a single infusion into the hepatic (liver) portal vein. While this is generally sufficient, an additional infusion ...
Dive Brief The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for public input on the transition to at-home care and how it can support enabling technologies. As part of its push to advance health equity, the FDA has posed a series of home-care questions to the medtech industry, including a query about how it can support the development of devices for use in non-clinical care settings. Other questions cover how digital health technologies can support home-based healthcare, the device design attributes that facilitate use outside of clinical settings and methods for generating data to inform regulatory reviews. Dive Insight The development of remote patient-monitoring devices and other connected medical technologies has made it possible to treat more patients at home. In theory, home care can help reduce costs and risks associated with spending time in healthcare facilities and lessen burdens on patients. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated uptake and validation of ...
Dive Brief The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has written to healthcare providers to emphasize its current indications and instructions for use of NuVasive’s limb-lengthening system. NuVasive paused shipments of its Precice devices for lengthening limbs in 2021 but resumed the sale of some products later that year after showing that its titanium-based devices may be free of the problems associated with stainless steel implants. The FDA said it continues to monitor the safety of the titanium implants and, having expanded the use of the devices to children in a recent 510(k) clearance, is reminding healthcare providers of its position on the products. Dive Insight The FDA in March gave 510(k) clearance to NuVasive to market its Precice Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System for use in the femur and tibia of children aged 12 years and up. Having lowered the minimum age for using the device, the FDA wrote to healthcare ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a complete response letter (CRL) for Alvotech’s Humira biosimilar AVT02, further delaying the company’s plans to launch the drug in a landmark year. The agency rejected the drug’s biologics licence application (BLA) over deficiencies seen at one of the company’s manufacturing facilities in Reykjavik, Iceland, according to Alvotech’s press release on 28 June. While the FDA did not make a note of any other deficiencies in the BLA, issues related to the Reykjavik facility need to be resolved to facilitate the drug’s potential approval. This marks the second time that the FDA has rejected AVT02’s BLA this year. In April, the regulator issued a CRL to Alvotech, which also noted the deficiencies seen in the company’s Reykjavik plant. Prior to that, the company received a CRL from the FDA over deficiencies in the plant in September 2022. Alvotech plans to resubmit ...
After an initial rejection in 2020 and a review delay earlier this year, BioMarin’s Roctavian has finally got the FDA go-ahead to introduce a gene therapy for a not-so-rare disorder.The FDA has cleared Roctavian as a one-time therapy for adults with severe hemophilia A, BioMarin said Thursday. The news comes seven months after the FDA greenlighted CSL Behring’s hemophilia B gene therapy Hemgenix, which bears a list price of $3.5 million and is currently the most expensive drug in the world. BioMarin is pricing Roctavian at a wholesale acquisition cost of $2.9 million, BioMarin’s chief commercial officer Jeff Ajer said during a call Thursday. It’s also setting up an outcomes-based warranty program. The warranty will reimburse government and commercial payers up to the full cost if Roctavian doesn’t live up to its treatment expectations. Partial reimbursement will be granted if an individual loses response to the therapy in the first four ...
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