Janssen’s Sirturo Needs Minor Tweaks To Confirmatory Trial, FDA Panel Says

Gathering more data to assuage concerns about possibly lower efficacy in black patients will be key to converting the accelerated approval to full approval for the tuberculosis drug, FDA’s Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee concludes.

FDA’s Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee wants tighter subject recruiting standards and additional subgroup data to emerge from a planned confirmatory trial of Janssen Pharmaceutical Cos.’ tuberculosis drug Sirturo (bedaquiline), to which the panel recommended FDA grant accelerated approval.

If approved, Sirturo will be the first drug with a new mechanism of action to treat tuberculosis in more than...

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