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HHS has contracted with San Diego-based Pfenex Pharmaceuticals to develop an anthrax vaccine that is effective after exposure — under an agreement valued at up to $143 million. Read More
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is on track to file an NDA for its cancer drug apaziquone by the end of this year, following agreement with the FDA on a special protocol assessment for a Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Read More
The primary efficacy endpoint in clinical trials for uncomplicated gonorrhea should be a negative culture at the infection site three to seven days after receiving antibacterial drug therapy, the FDA says. Read More
Companies planning to market a botanical drug under an NDA must be able to prove the therapeutic consistency of the product, since the potential for variation is critical, the FDA says. Read More
Companies developing drugs for rare diseases that lack alternative treatments may be able to start clinical trials without the standard toxicology studies, provided they justify the approach, the FDA says. Read More
Boehringer Ingelheim is aiming to broaden its research into diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases via a partnership with Circuit Therapeutics to develop novel drugs to treat obesity. Read More
The FDA has extended until Nov. 27 its deadline for deciding whether to approve Bristol-Myers Squibb’s sBLA for Opdivo in previously untreated advanced melanoma to allow the company to present additional data from a Phase 3 clinical trial. Read More