Drug Development

The company will build a multi-billion-dollar drug manufacturing center in Virginia that will focus on chronic diseases, as well as facilities in California, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Texas.

Sotyktu (deucravacitinib) has been assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of March 6, 2026.

George Francis Tidmarsh, MD, PhD, founding co-director of Stanford’s Master of Translational Research and Applied Medicine program, has been appointed as the new director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

A structured, risk-based framework for pharmaceutical compounding that enhances quality, regulatory compliance, and process consistency.

Delayed cerebral ischemia is a leading complication in the severe form of stroke known as subarachnoid hemorrhage and can result in long-term neurological damage, disability, or death.

The company estimated that more than 1000 women in Scotland at very high risk of fracture would be eligible for treatment.

Hydrogels, drug-eluting contact lenses, and other implant technologies show real promise.

The company is expanding its US manufacturing and R&D capabilities with a $1 billion investment by 2030.

Prokaryotics will gain worldwide rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize NAB741, a non-bioactive polymyxin designed to increase permeability of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria.

The company’s mocravimod, a novel oral S1P receptor, is being evaluated for its efficacy as an addition to CAR-T cell therapies.

Cambridge Healthcare Innovations says its dry powder inhaler engine, Quattrii, can deliver large volumes of biologic and mRNA molecules in a single inhalation.

The 12th edition of the European Pharmacopoeia will be an all-digital, redesigned, user-friendly issue.

mRNA technologies offer great promise in immunotherapy and non-immunogenic applications.

A total of 13 drugs were granted recommendation for market authorization at EMA’s CHMP June 2025 meeting.

The new facility offers cleanroom packaging and high-sensitivity analytical testing.

The Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher can be used by drug developers to participate in a novel priority program for shortened drug approval review time.

The collaboration will focus on identifying pre-clinical candidates for high-priority targets, including a small molecule oral therapy for immunological diseases.

The agreement has been designed to offer a turnkey service to companies seeking faster time to market.

NMPA’s Center for Drug Evaluation accepted Merck KGaA’s application for marketing authorization of pimicotinib as a Class 1 innovative drug for adult patients with TGCTs that require systemic treatment.

The quickly evolving development of biopharmaceuticals is impacting innovation in the industry overall.

The partnership leverages the Hesperos organ-on-a-chip platform in the preclinical development of Psilera’s lead compound targeting the progressive neurological disorder for which treatment options are few.

EMA has published recommendations to address potential radiopharmaceutical shortages.

The grant encompasses $100,000 each from the Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center and Berkeley SkyDeck, with SkyDeck having the option to invest an additional $100,000.

As a result of the decision, Shilpa will not be eligible to receive FDA approval for its lenvatinib mesylate generic until February 2036.

A Phase III trial demonstrated mNEXSPIKE’s non-inferior efficacy compared with Moderna’s original COVID vaccine, Spikevax.

Both companies viewed the early end to the PIVOT-PO trial as a positive development, with GSK saying it would work with US regulatory authorities to move the treatment forward in 2025.

Inobrodib is being developed as a first-in-class oral cancer drug that the company says will be able to treat not only multiple myeloma, but other specific cancers as well.

The LP.8.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus differs from the JN.1 family that previous vaccines had been designed to target, and has surpassed JN.1 as the variant circulating most widely worldwide.

Researchers say they have discovered the first drug mechanism that binds to the pyrin domain to block NLRP3 and prevent a series of reactions resulting in inflammation.

According to the White House, the order builds on actions taken in the president’s first term to reduce price disparities domestically.