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Sound Pharmaceuticals plans to stick with WuXi amid BIOSECURE Act rumblings

Sound Pharmaceuticals wishes to maintain its relationship with the WuXi AppTec for manufacturing its lead Meniere’s disease drug SPI-1005, amidst increasing scrutiny on Chinese companies in the US, says CEO Jonathan Kil. In an exclusive interview with Pharmaceutical Technology Kil stated the company is “actively supporting WuXi”. The Biden administration set its sights on several Chinese firms with the introduction of the BIOSECURE Act, including WuXi AppTec. The BIOSECURE Act will withhold federal funding and contracts to companies should the biotech equipment or services used be sourced from ‘companies of concern’. These include several Chinese firms including WuXi. Under the Act, existing corporate ties will be permitted until 2032. According to Reuters, information stating the company transferred US intellectual property to Beijing without consent was shared with US senators driving this bill. Last month, Sound Pharmaceuticals completed a Phase III trial for its drug SPI-1005. Interim results from the study ...
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- August 21, 2024
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19/flu combination vaccine falters in Phase III readout

Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that a Phase III trial studying their investigational combination mRNA vaccine for the treatment of influenza and Covid-19 has failed to meet one of its two primary endpoints. While the vaccine demonstrated a trend of higher responses in neutralising the influenza A strain compared to a licensed influenza vaccine, it failed to demonstrate non-inferiority against the influenza B strain in geometric mean titers (GMT) and seroconversion, as per a 16 August press release. Additionally, data indicated that the combination vaccine showed “comparable” responses for SARS-CoV-2 when compared to Pfizer’s licensed approved Covid-19 vaccine, Comirnaty (tozinameran). The randomised, parallel assignment Phase III study (NCT06178991) enrolled over 8,000 adults aged 18 to 64 years old to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a single dose of the combined vaccine for protection against influenza and Covid-19. No new safety signals were found in the Phase III study. ...
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- August 20, 2024
AstraZeneca wins approval for Imfinzi in NSCLC perioperative setting

AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) plus chemotherapy has secured US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the perioperative setting, just weeks after the agency called for an overhaul of perioperative lung cancer trials. This approval is for patients with resectable early-stage (IIA-IIIB) NSCLC and no known epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations or anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangements. In this regimen, patients are treated in the perioperative setting – a term that refers to the time before, during, and after surgery. In a 25 July meeting, the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) raised concerns about the design of trials done in this setting. The Imfinzi approval is based on positive data from the Phase III AEGEAN study (NCT03800134), which showed that the perioperative use of the treatment reduced the risk of cancer returning, progressing, or causing death by 32% compared to using chemotherapy alone. ...
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- August 20, 2024
Mabwell’s Novel Nectin-4 Targeting ADC 9MW2821 Granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by China’s NMPA

SHANGHAI, Aug. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Mabwell (688062.SH), an innovative biopharmaceutical company with entire industry chain, announced its novel Nectin-4 targeting ADC (R&D code: 9MW2821) has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma that has failed previous platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-(L)1 inhibitor therapy. The designation as a breakthrough therapy is aimed at expediting the development process of drug candidates for serious diseases, with the drug candidates included having demonstrated significant efficacy or safety advantages compared to existing therapies in early clinical trials. For drug candidates included in the breakthrough therapy list, CDE will prioritize the allocation of resources to facilitate communication and provide guidance to promote drug development, which will benefit the further advancement of the clinical development progress and the speed of market review and approval. ...
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- August 19, 2024
Gilead’s PBC therapy Livdelzi bags accelerated approval

Gilead Sciences’ Livdelzi (seladelpar) has received an accelerated approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). The approval is based on results from the Phase III RESPONSE trial (NCT04620733), which demonstrated Livdelzi to be the first treatment yielding significant reductions in alkaline phosphatase (ALP) normalisation and pruritus—significant markers of PBC progression. ALP levels normalised at 12 months for 25% of Livdelzi-treated patients compared to none on placebo. Change in pruritus score at six months was significantly reduced among Livdelzi-treated patients compared to those taking placebo. Overall, 62% of patients on Livdelzi achieved composite biochemical response at 12 months, achieved by just 20% of placebo patients. With this regulatory nod, Livdelzi enters a space dominated by other approved therapies like Ocaliva (obeticholic acid) and ursodeoxycholic acid. Ocaliva was developed by Intercept Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Alfasigma in late 2023. Gilead gained the rights ...
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- August 17, 2024
Smiths Medical recalls infusion pumps over software issues

Dive Brief Smiths Medical has recalled infusion pumps over multiple problems linked to old software, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. The problems affect CADD-Solis ambulatory infusion pumps, which may fail to emit alarms, have unresponsive stop and power keys and reveal passwords to people with access to certain files. The ICU Medical subsidiary said it corrected many of the issues in earlier software updates when it sent an urgent notice in February and the devices are staying on the market. The FDA said there has been one reported injury. Dive Insight ICU Medical acquired CADD-Solis, which is used in home care and pain management, in its $2.35 billion purchase of Smiths Medical. The portfolio has caused ICU Medical problems, with a warning letter, recalls and falling sales since the takeover closed early in 2022. Syringe pumps were a focus of the earlier problems. The latest issue affects a ...
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- August 16, 2024
Breas Medical flags risk of formaldehyde exposure in ventilators

Dive Brief Breas Medical started a correction of more than 8,000 ventilators after identifying a risk of formaldehyde exposure, the company said Friday. The notice, which was shared by the Food and Drug Administration, states internal testing of Vivo 45 LS ventilator devices showed the potential for short-term exposure to elevated levels of formaldehyde under specific conditions. Breas, which had not received any related injury reports, has reduced the maximum room air temperature of the ventilators and updated its instructions for new devices to mitigate the risk. Dive Insight The potential for ventilators to expose patients to formaldehyde, a chemical that can harm the lungs and nervous system, has prompted actions by the FDA and companies including GE Healthcare over the past two years. Breas began a nationwide U.S. correction of 8,186 Vivo 45 LS ventilator devices on Aug. 5. Internal testing of the Vivo 45 LS, a small, portable ...
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- August 16, 2024
US judge denies initial attempt by Novartis to block generic Entresto launch

Novartis’s bid to block the launch of a biosimilar for its best-selling drug Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan) got off to a faltering start, as the drugmaker failed to convince a US court that MSN Pharmaceuticals’ (MSNPI) copycat infringed on a patent. Richard Andrews, district judge for the District of Delaware, ruled the likelihood that Novartis would win the lawsuit was not high enough, meaning a preliminary injunction was not granted. While Andrews stated that stopping MSNPI’s generic launch was not justified, he did order a temporary 72-hour halt while Novartis goes to the US Court of Appeal to seek an injunction, as per a 12 August court document first released by Reuters. The hearing is part of a lawsuit initiated by Novartis to fend off MSNPI’s generic – which received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval last month – to protect sales for its heart failure blockbuster. Novartis’s reference drug was ...
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- August 15, 2024
Hengrui’s Dexmedetomidine Hydrochloride Injection Passed GMP Certification Inspection in Japan

Recently, Hengrui Pharmaceuticals has received the GMP certificate issued by Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) for its preparation production site located at No. 38, Huanghe Road, Lianyungang, and the company’s Dexmedetomidine Hydrochloride Injection has successfully passed the GMP compliance inspection by PMDA. This is the company’s quality management system again recognized by international authoritative institutions after the API dexmedetomidine hydrochloride PMDA site inspection was passed, which is conducive to the company to further strengthen the internationalization strategy and enhance the competitiveness in the global market. Japanese GMP certification is one of the authoritative certifications in the field of international drug production, and the inspection is characterized by rigor, meticulousness and attention to details.2023 In September, two qualification inspectors of Japan PMDA conducted a GMP on-site inspection for several days on Hengrui Pharmaceuticals’ Dexmedetomidine Hydrochloride Injection production line at the preparation production site located at No. 38 Huanghe Road, ...
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- August 15, 2024
Henlius to Release Latest Results of HANSIZHUANG and HANQUYOU at ESMO Congress 2024

2024 European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress will take place from September 13-17 in Madrid, Spain. During the conference, Henlius will release multiple results on its first innovative product HANSIZHUANG (serplulimab) as well as its trastuzumab biosimilar approved in China, Europe and U.S., HANQUYOU. The results to be displayed include the smoking-related genomic mutation patterns in patients with small cell lung cancer treated in ASTRUM-005 study, a pivotal phase 3 clinical study of serplulimab for the first-line treatment of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) led by Professor Ying Cheng from Jilin Cancer Hospital, and the exploratory biomarker analysis of ASTRUM-004 study, a pivotal phase 3 clinical study of serplulimab plus chemotherapy as first-line treatment for advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (sqNSCLC) led by Professor Caicun Zhou from Shanghai East Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University. HANSIZHUANG (serplulimab) is a recombinant humanised anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody（mAb）injection independently developed by Henlius, ...
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- August 12, 2024

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