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  • Amerigen Pharmaceuticals Limited  announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval to the Company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic version of Temodar® (temozolomide capsules 5, 20, 100, 140, 180 and 250mg).

  • Zymeworks Inc., a biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing innovative multi-functional protein-based therapeutics, including bi-specific antibodies and drug conjugates for the treatment of cancer, announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to Zymeworks’ lead investigational products ZW25 and ZW33 for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Orphan drug designation qualifies Zymeworks for a number of development incentives including tax credits for clinical testing and marketing exclusivity for a period of seven years if ZW25 or ZW33 is approved for this indication.

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  • Neurotrope, Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Neurotrope BioScience, Inc., has submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an amended protocol for its Phase 2 clinical trial of lead candidate bryostatin-1 for the treatment of advanced Alzheimer’s disease. As planned in the original protocol, the primary efficacy outcome will occur at Week 13, and does not change with this amendment.

  • Dynavax Technologies Corporation  announced that the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VBRPAC) will review the Biologics License Application (BLA) for HEPLISAV-B™ [Hepatitis B Vaccine, Recombinant (Adjuvanted)] at its meeting on November 16, 2016. The FDA has indicated it will communicate questions for the VRBPAC to address closer in time to the meeting date. HEPLISAV-B, the company's vaccine candidate for immunization against infection caused by all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus in adults ages 18 years of age and older, is currently under FDA review, with a December 15, 2016 Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date.

  • Merck , known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for MK-1293, an investigational follow-on biologic insulin glargine candidate for the treatment of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, which is being developed by Merck with partial funding from Samsung Bioepis. 

  • Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab), the company’s anti-PD-1 (programmed death receptor-1) therapy, at a fixed dose of 200 mg every three weeks, for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy.

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