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  • CEL-SCI Corporation announced  that company received the Partial Clinical Hold letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). CEL-SCI has started working on a response to the FDA and will work diligently with the FDA to seek to have the partial clinical hold lifted.

  • India may have emerged as a key supplier of generic and affordable medicine  for the world market, its overwhelming dependence on China for a crucial raw material , known as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)to the extent of over 65 percent of the requirement, has emerged as a main worrying area.

  • The ICGEB and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries announced their new collaboration for development of a dengue vaccine, targeted against all the four serotypes of Dengue virus that cause disease in humans. ICGEB has developed a tailored recombinant virus-like-particle (VLP) based tetravalent dengue vaccine, containing host-receptor binding domain of envelope protein of all the four DENV serotypes.

  • India has the highest numbers of dengue infections of any country. So far this year, over 51,730 cases of dengue cases have been reported in India, 2,333 in Delhi alone, but the actual estimated numbers might be ten times higher. Despite this emerging problem, there has been little work towards understanding the immune responses in Indians infected with the dengue virus.

  • In efforts to develop new treatments for brain cancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood-brain barrier.

  • Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) (Sobi) has been granted orphan designation by the European Commission (EC) for the company’s development product candidate SOBI003, a chemically modified human recombinant sulfamidase for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (Sanfilippo A syndrome). SOBI003 will be included in the EU Community Register of Orphan Medicinal Products.

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  • AstraZeneca announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a complete re-submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) for sodium zirconium cyclosilicate (ZS-9), a potential new medicine for the treatment of hyperkalaemia (high potassium level in the blood serum) by ZS Pharma, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca. The FDA has indicated that this is a complete class 2 response.

  • Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the resubmission of the New Drug Application (NDA) for SD-809 (deutetrabenazine) for the treatment of chorea associated with Huntington disease (HD). The FDA has assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of April 3, 2017.

  • Eli Lilly and Company announced  that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of LARTRUVO™ (olaratumab injection, 10 mg/mL), in combination with doxorubicin, for the treatment of adults with soft tissue sarcoma (STS) with a histologic subtype for which an anthracycline-containing regimen is appropriate and which is not amenable to curative treatment with radiotherapy or surgery. LARTRUVO's indication is approved under Accelerated Approval, and is based on data from the Phase 2 portion of the pivotal JGDG trial. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial.

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