Chris Boshoff, Pfizer Oncology chief development officer, said lessons from the rapid pace of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine program are being applied to elranatamab and other cancer therapies.

The sponsors of seven new drugs are set to find out this week whether the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee, the CHMP, will recommend pan-EU approval for their products. CHMP action is also expected regarding two potential combination therapies for COVID-19.

The UK Thalassaemia Society says that HTA body NICE fails to properly incorporate patient experiences into its decision making and that its patient engagement processes need reform. The marketing of Zynteglo, the gene therapy from bluebird bio for which the group is advocating, has just been temporarily suspended.