Deals Of The Week: Amgen/Watson, Baxter/Momenta, Takeda/Intellikine
• By Chris Morrison, John Davis, Lisa LaMotta, Alex Lash, and Melanie Senior
Biosimilars took center stage during the last two weeks of 2011, as Amgen and Watson and then Baxter and Momenta followed up on the collaboration between Biogen Idec and Samsung BioLogics earlier in the month.
Business development didn’t take much of a holiday during the past fortnight. It was almost the 12 Deals of Christmas, as this installment of Deals of the Week, covering the period from Dec. 19 to Dec. 29, demonstrates.
Amgen Inc. has finally tipped its hand regarding its biosimilar strategy after playing both sides of the issue for years. The big biotech and Allergan PLC announced on...
The European Medicines Agency says that a regulatory reliance pilot that it is supporting to speed up assessments of post-approval changes appears to be accelerating evaluation timelines in non-EU countries.
The UK regulator’s draft guideline on the use of external control arms based on real-world data reflects concepts similar to those outlined by the US Food and Drug Administration.
The Pink Sheet's list of EU centralized approvals of new active substances has been updated to include two new products, one of which is Vyjuvek, Krystal Biotech's advanced therapy for treating dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
This is an update of recommendations from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on the authorization of new medicines in the EU, and updates on EU marketing authorization changes recommended by the CHMP.
The European Medicines Agency says that a regulatory reliance pilot that it is supporting to speed up assessments of post-approval changes appears to be accelerating evaluation timelines in non-EU countries.
The UK regulator’s draft guideline on the use of external control arms based on real-world data reflects concepts similar to those outlined by the US Food and Drug Administration.
The Pink Sheet's list of EU centralized approvals of new active substances has been updated to include two new products, one of which is Vyjuvek, Krystal Biotech's advanced therapy for treating dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.