Europe – DARWIN EU® has completed its first studies and is calling for new...
DARWIN EU®, the Data Analysis and Real-World Interrogation Network, has accomplished its first year of establishment. Following the set-up of the DARWIN EU® Coordination...
Europe – Convergence: EMA official urges transition of existing clinical trials to CTIS portal
Sponsors should plan to transition existing clinical trials into the new Clinical Trial Information System (CTIS) portal by 30 January 2025, Anabela Marcal, of...
UK – NICE recommends AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for adults with non-small cell lung cancer
The regulatory approval is specifically for adults whose tumours present a protein called PD-L1 on at least 1% of tumour cells and whose disease...
Europe – Start of rolling review for adapted Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine
EMA has started a rolling review for a version of Spikevax adapted to provide better protection against specific variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that...
Europe – EMA reviewing data on sabizabulin for COVID-19
EMA’s Emergency Task Force (ETF) has started a review of data on the use of sabizabulin for treating COVID-19.
The review will look at all available...
Europe – Data Quality Framework for EU medicines regulation
As acknowledged in the recommendations of the HMA-EMA Joint Big Data Task Force (BDTF) and the workplan of the HMA-EMA Joint Big Data Steering...
Europe – DARWIN EU® welcomes first data partners
EMA has selected the first set of data partners to collaborate with DARWIN EU®, the Data Analysis and Real-World Interrogation Network. The data available to these...
Europe – Public consultation on a multi-stakeholder platform to improve clinical trials in the...
On 3 February 2023, EMA, the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) and the European Commission (EC) are launching a public consultation on the establishment of a...
UK – Kite’s CAR-T therapies recommended by NICE for certain blood cancers
The treatments, both given as one-off infusions, have been specifically recommended for use within the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), which pays for cancer treatments...
Europe – EMA guidance supports development of new antibiotics
As part of its efforts to support a global approach to the development of new antimicrobial medicines, EMA has published the final revised guideline on the...
