Quality Systems

EMA's CHMP has adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of UCB’s bimekizumab (Bimzelx) for the treatment of plaque psoriasis.

Otsuka Pharmaceuticals Europe has filed an initial marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency for voclosporin.

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

Pharmaceutical Technology discussed the potential increased risk of counterfeit medicines in the UK post-Brexit and how blockchain could be a useful tool to tackle the issue.

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.

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.

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.

Thought and foresight into method development stages can ensure costly errors and delays are avoided later on.

The root cause of the most serious integrity issues has generally been a lapse of ethical behavior on the part of an individual.

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

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

Automated systems help detect and resolve quality issues.

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

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.

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

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.

An ANDA from Sandoz for albuterol sulfate inhalation aerosol was approved by FDA.

The vaccine is now authorized for ages 12 and older in European Union member states and the UK.

The agency issued two final and two draft guidance documents to help identify and trace drug products in the supply chain.

FDA has granted fast track designation to a GLP-1/glucagon dual agonist in development by Boehringer Ingelheim and Zealand Pharma for the treatment of NASH.