Roche’s Eye Drug Scores First UK Approval Under Access Consortium

The UK MHRA has approved its first drug under an international work-sharing initiative that also includes regulators from Australia, Canada, Singapore and Switzerland.

Plenty of capsules and pills laying on a flag of Great Britain
UK has joined international initiatives to speed up the evaluation of innovative drugs • Source: Shutterstock

Roche’s ophthalmology drug Vabysmo (faricimab) has become the first product to be approved by the UK medicines regulator under the Access Consortium, an international work-sharing scheme that the agency joined post-Brexit to accelerate drug approvals.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency joined the consortium in October 2020 to work with regulators from Australia, Canada,...

More from Approvals

More from Product Reviews