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Can gene therapies for haemophilia defend their high price tags?

Pharmaceutical Technology

An approval decision on the gene therapy, also known as EtranaDez, is expected by the end of this month. On November 7, the company announced that the FDA has scheduled a pre-licensure inspection of BioMarin’s manufacturing facility, and required the company to submit three-year Phase III Roctavian data in the approval application.

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New Rare Disease Drugs and Research Advancements

XTalks

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a number of new rare disease drugs in recent years, including gene therapies. In 2020, 31 out of 53 novel drug approvals were for rare or orphan diseases​​. Both therapies were awarded their approvals on the same day in December 2023.

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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. Streamlining trial designs and regulatory pathways can help.

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First gene therapy for haemophilia B gets go ahead in Europe

Drug Discovery World

The therapy was also recently approved by the FDA for patients in the US. . Thank you to all for the role you have played in helping us reach this regulatory milestone in Europe.” . World’s most expensive drug. A one-time treatment with etranacogene dezaparvovec costs US$3.5 million, making it the world’s most expensive drug. .

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June 24, 2022: FDA Draft Guidance on Real-World Evidence (John Concato, MD, MS, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Real-world data (RWD) is a term with specific regulatory implications referring to health care data routinely collected from a variety of sources. Big Data, a term first used in the 1990s, leverages modern technology to increase the quantity, forms, speed, and capability to manipulate large-scale data. and the FDA Draft Guidance for RWD/RWE.

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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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