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RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2018
RegenxBio receives FDA fast track designation for RGX-121 gene therapy for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis Type II
2 May 2018 - Phase I/II clinical trial expected to enrol children with MPS II. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Apr 2018
Synlogic receives fast track designation for SYNB1618, a synthetic biotic medicine for the treatment of phenylketonuria
25 April 2018 - Phase 1/2a clinical study of SYNB1618 evaluating safety and tolerability as well as exploratory endpoints expected ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Apr 2018
Price tag for newly approved Crysvita is "responsible," says PBM Express Scripts
18 April 2018 - Taking the rebates that it expects to negotiate into consideration, Ultragenyx said that burosumab will cost approximately ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2018
FDA, industry ponder changes to clinical trials for rare disease treatments
19 March 2018 - FDA statisticians pondered changing how the agency uses statistics to approve drugs for rare disease at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Feb 2018
Taking new steps to meet the challenges of rare diseases — FDA marks the 11th Rare Disease Day
26 February 2018 - Today 30 million people in the United States – or one out of every 10 Americans – ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2018
Developing anti-cancer drugs in orphan molecular entities — a paradigm under construction
22 February 2018 - Genomic characterisation of cancers has shown that some oncogenic alterations occur at very low frequency and are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Feb 2018
PTC Therapeutics receives formal dispute resolution request decision from the FDA's Office of New Drugs
20 February 2018 - PTC Therapeutics today announced that the Office of New Drugs of the U.S. FDA has reiterated ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2018
FDA approves Symdeko (tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor) to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis in people ages 12 and older with certain mutations in the CFTR gene
12 February 2018 - Symdeko to begin shipping to pharmacies this week. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Feb 2018
U.S. FDA files new drug application under priority review for migalastat for treatment of Fabry disease
12 February 2018 - Six month PDUFA goal date is 13 August 2018. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2018
Capricor receives FDA regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation for Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy
5 February 2018 - CAP-1002 to benefit from expedited review program for drugs for unmet needs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Feb 2018
Alnylam announces FDA acceptance of new drug application and priority review status for patisiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of hereditary ATTR amyloidosis
1 February 2018 - PDUFA date set for 11 August 2018. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2018
Protalix BioTherapeutics’ pegunigalsidase alfa receives fast track designation from the U.S. FDA
31 January 2018 - Fast Track designation highlights high unmet medical need in the treatment of Fabry disease. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Jan 2018
Medical miracles from FDA inefficiency
26 January 2018 - The economist behind the ‘priority review voucher,’ which advances treatments for neglected diseases. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2018
FDA accepts investigational new drug application and grants fast track status for SOBI003 for the treatment of MPS IIIA
23 January 2018 - Swedish Orphan Biovitrum announces that the FDA has issued a study may proceed letter for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jan 2018
Aquestive Therapeutics announces U.S. FDA filing acceptance of new drug application for clobazam oral soluble film to treat Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
18 January 2018 - Aquestive Therapeutics today announced that the U.S. FDA has accepted for review the company’s new drug application ...