April 2, 2025
| This week’s commercialization news and insights for biopharma leaders
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The sweeping workforce reduction that began Tuesday was made worse by mistakes and poor communication, including directions for some CMS employees to contact a director who died last year.
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Shares in Moderna, Vaxcyte, Novavax and BioNTech all fell Monday after Peter Marks, head of the FDA office that reviews vaccines, resigned on Friday.
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The Sanofi drug, known as fitusiran and now Qfitlia, was approved on Friday for a broad group of people with the rare bleeding disorder.
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While uptake has been limited, cell therapy’s impact in cancer care is growing, and biotech companies have continued to invest in ways to improve it. Learn more in
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Pluvicto can now be used before chemotherapy to treat a kind of metastatic prostate cancer, tripling the number of patients who are eligible for treatment.
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Key regulators are not recommending Lilly’s Kisunla be cleared for the European market. The company says it plans to appeal the verdict, a strategy successfully employed by Eisai.
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Clearance of Vykat unlocks what analysts anticipate will be a lucrative market opportunity for Soleno Therapeutics.
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A Texas judge vacated the FDA’s final rule, which was strongly opposed by the laboratory industry, and remanded the matter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The European Commission has referred Eisai and Biogen’s application to an appeals committee. Elsewhere, Opthea warned of insolvency and Novartis hired a new top lawyer.
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