Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Pfizer sells $7.8 billion in Covid shots in the second quarter, raises 2021 guidance on vaccine sales ( CNBC ) AstraZeneca castoff draws $123M wager on CXCR2 antagonist as Arena lines up a buyout option ( Endpoints ) Opinion: US FDA Should Take Its Time With COVID Vaccine BLAs ( Pink Sheet ) Biden Is Considering A Vaccine Or Testing Mandate For Federal Workers...

Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US How Biogen found a believer: At the FDA, a hard-nosed regulator was won over on controversial Alzheimer’s drug ( STAT ) AbbVie hits go on $1B re-upped Calico deal as the Google life science spin-out continues I-O, neuro push ( Fierce ) Biden wants to bolster the pharma supply chain. A major generic plant closing may make that harder ( STAT ) CDC to reverse ind...

Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US At the FDA’s urging, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are expanding their studies of children 5 to 11 ( NYT ) Bristol Myers withdraws Opdivo in liver cancer as fallout from FDA meeting continues ( Biopharma Dive ) Shelling out $5B+, PerkinElmer pays the big bucks for antibody and reagent player ( Endpoints ) House Democrats expand probe into political interference ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is seeking eight new members for its Patient Engagement Collaborative (PEC), a group charged with gaining meaningful patient input into medical product development and regulatory decision making.   The 16-member panel includes patients, caregivers, and advocates who serve for 2 to 3 years. The panel is a joint effort between FDA and the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative . Panel members are expected to participate in two to f...

Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US How an Unproven Alzheimer’s Drug Got Approved ( NYT ) States and Cities Near Tentative $26 Billion Deal in Opioids Cases ( NYT ) Drug distributors settle New York opioid claims for up to $1.18B  ( Reuters ) Pharma CEOs, lobbyists showered Democrat with cash after his attempt to torpedo Pelosi’s drug pricing bill ( STAT ) Advocates urge Biden to name patent of...

The top regulatory affairs official at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave a preview of a soon-to-be-launched council within the agency that will focus solely on inspection-related matters.   “We will soon stand up an agency-wide decision-making body; it’s called the FDA Inspectional Affairs Council,” said Judith McMeekin, FDA’s associate commissioner for regulatory affairs within the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), speaking at a virtual webinar hosted W...

Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Cavazzoni Begins Putting Her Mark On FDA Drug Center With New Principal Deputy Position ( Pink Sheet ) ( Biocentury ) The Delta Variant Is The Dominant Coronavirus Strain In The U.S. ( NPR ) ( Reuters ) COVID-19 cases up in nearly half of US states: analysis ( The Hill ) Maryland says 100 percent of COVID-19 deaths last month were among unvaccinated ( The Hill...

  Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Fauci: More than 99% of people who died from COVID-19 in June were not vaccinated ( The Hill ) The White House is taking right approach in fighting the Covid-19 delta variant, Gottlieb says ( CNBC ) Biden’s grand plan: ‘Blue Sky’ research to solve the biggest health problems ( MedCity News ) As COVID Vaccinations Slow, Parts Of The U.S. Remain Far Behind 7...

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued new draft guidance for clinical trials examining the adhesion performance of transdermal and topical delivery systems (collectively, TDS) for new drug applications.   Surface area is an important variable in determining the amount of drug delivered through a TDS; adhesion performance can affect both safety and effectiveness of TDS products because adhesion failures can result in reduced effectiveness caused by suboptimal d...

Rethinking the medical device regulatory framework has been on the mind of Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD, director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), especially in light of lessons the agency learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.   When he became director at CDRH in 2009, Shuren said, the medical device industry was in a different place. “Innovators were bringing their technologies overseas, first due to incr...

Minutes from the latest round of negotiations between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and industry around the next iteration of the Medical Device User Fee Amendments (MDUFA V) have been released to the public and highlight how stakeholders are approaching the talks with different goals in mind.   Negotiations for MDUFA V began this year after months of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, a public kick-off meeting was pushed from April 2020 to Oct...

This article presents a brief overview of the EU In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR) requirements. It provides a user-friendly, step-by-step guide on how to comply with the regulation from first-hand experience and includes suggestions and tips for IVDR compliance through the lens of a small organization.   Understanding the changes of EU IVDR The IVDR, or Regulation 2017/746, 1 on in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) came into effect with its publication on 26 May 2017 ...