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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The first drug that used the new process was Remdesivir in May 2020. There was a daily process for the Remdesivir lottery. The first monoclonal antibody (mABs) treatment for treatment of COVID-19 was approved in November 2020. When Evusheld was approved in December 2021 a similar weighted lottery process was put into place.

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A broad range of unmet needs remains in the immuno-oncology space

Pharmaceutical Technology

There are more than 20 marketed ICIs with approvals across a very wide spectrum of solid tumour indications. While initially only approved for metastatic disease, ICIs have now moved into earlier disease settings, reducing the risk of disease progression and relapse. Cost-related unmet needs also scored highly.

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What challenges does the advanced therapies sector face? 

Drug Discovery World

He said: “Increasing the level of automation and standardisation is not only the way to reduce manufacturing costs, but also paves the way for follow-on approvals once a platform technology is part of an approval. Automating and scaling up manufacturing is crucial for cost reduction.

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Upcoming sickle cell gene therapies cost effective at $2 million, says ICER

Pharmaceutical Technology

Two gene therapies up for approval this year for sickle cell disease could be cost effective in some cases at a $2 million price point, based on a draft evidence report published by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). If approved, exa-cel would be the first FDA-approved gene therapy based on CRISPR editing.

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Lyfgenia and Casgevy Become First FDA-Approved Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease

XTalks

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease, approving two on the same day. The landmark approvals were awarded to bluebird bio’s Lyfgenia (lovo-cel) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ jointly developed Casgevy (exa-cel).

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Bluebird’s $2.8M Gene Therapy Zynteglo Wins Landmark FDA Approval for Beta Thalassemia

XTalks

Bluebird bio’s gene therapy Zynteglo (betibeglogene autotemcel, beti-cel) has been awarded a much anticipated approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with beta thalassemia who need regular blood transfusions. Zynteglo’s hefty price tag of $2.8

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The FDA and Aduhelm: WTF?

World of DTC Marketing

One agency FDA adviser, resigning from his committee post in protest, called it “probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. Biogen’s Aduhelm won FDA approval after discovering that some patients on higher dosages had displayed improvement of.39 Not to mention the $56,000 annual price tag. government.

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