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The FDA finally launched its long-awaited investigational new drug pilot program and began accepting applications Tuesday. Top agency officials said they included public input into who should be able to apply. Max Bayer has the details here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Max Bayer

The FDA’s long-await­ed ex­pe­dit­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tion­al new drug pi­lot pro­gram be­gan ac­cept­ing ap­pli­ca­tions Tues­day, with top agency of­fi­cials in­cor­po­rat­ing pub­lic feed­back in­to who should qual­i­fy.

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by Max Gelman

The French biotech Ax­oltis Phar­ma re­port­ed a Phase 2 fail­ure in ALS on Tues­day morn­ing, but sug­gest­ed it found a small sig­nal to move the...

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by Lei Lei Wu

Sion­na Ther­a­peu­tics an­nouncedit was lay­ing off 46% of its staff as it seeks a way for­ward fol­low­ing an un­ex­pect­ed tri­al fail­ure in cys­tic fi­bro­sis...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

As the FDA ramps up its ef­fort to ac­cel­er­ate the de­vel­op­ment of psy­che­del­ic ther­a­pies, men­tal health ex­perts on Mon­day urged the agency to con­sid­er cer­tain...

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