Endpoints News
Regeneron snags hearing loss gene therapy approval Read in browser
Endpoints News
Thank you for reading, dupa dupackia!
basic
UPGRADE
Wednesday
29 April, 2026
ENDPOINTS at #ASCO26
ASCO is about to deliver some make-or-break cancer data. Join us to figure out which pipeline bets will pay off. Get your spot now.
top stories
1. FDA announces real-time clinical trial data effort, with AstraZeneca and Amgen as test cases
2. Compass, Transcend and Usona Institute win FDA vouchers to expedite new psychedelics
3. Updated: Regeneron snags hearing loss gene therapy approval, closes US pricing deal
4. Updated: FDA claims trial 'manipulation' tainted approval of ChemoCentryx drug now owned by Amgen
5. Pharma-backed petition calls on FDA to reform release of drug rejection letters
6. Sanofi’s tolebrutinib gets CHMP backing for certain MS patients despite FDA rejection
7. Novartis pulls Pluvicto prostate cancer label expansion filing in the EU
Max Bayer
.

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary gave a brief update on the search for a new CBER director, saying at an event Tuesday that "no decision has been reached at this point" but that he expects a candidate will be selected "in the coming weeks." Endpoints previously reported that ophthalmologist and biotech executive Houman Hemmati was high on the shortlist to replace Vinay Prasad, who's expected to formally leave the agency any day now.

.
Max Bayer
Pharma Reporter, Endpoints News
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
1
by Max Bayer

The FDA is launch­ing a pi­lot pro­gram to col­lect and re­view clin­i­cal tri­al da­ta in re­al time, giv­ing sci­en­tif­ic re­view­ers ac­cess to the da­ta as...

Read full story
2
by Ayisha Sharma

The FDA said Fri­day it has is­sued new fast-track vouch­ers to three psy­che­del­ic com­pa­nies, and its se­lec­tions have come as a “sur­prise” to Wall Street...

Read full story
3
by Lei Lei Wu, Max Bayer

Re­gen­eron has won the first-ever FDA ap­proval for a gene ther­a­py to treat a rare type of in­her­it­ed hear­ing loss, and the com­pa­ny plans to...

Read full story
4
by Lei Lei Wu

The FDA ac­cused Chemo­Cen­tryx of ma­nip­u­lat­ing the re­sults of a piv­otal clin­i­cal tri­al used to ap­prove the drug Tavneos, es­ca­lat­ing the agen­cy's ef­fort to pull...

Read full story
5
by Zachary Brennan

The FDA for the first time is fac­ing phar­ma-backed crit­i­cism of its new prac­tice of pub­licly re­leas­ing par­tial­ly redact­ed drug re­jec­tion let­ters.

The law firm...

Read full story
6
by Ayisha Sharma

Sanofi’s tole­bru­ti­nib is on track to get an ap­proval in Eu­rope for a type of mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis even af­ter re­ceiv­ing a com­plete re­sponse let­ter from...

Read full story
7
by Anna Brown

No­var­tis has with­drawn its EU ap­pli­ca­tion for Plu­vic­to's ex­pan­sion in­to ear­li­er prostate can­cer treat­ment, de­spite US and UK ap­proval for the same in­di­ca­tion.

The Swiss...

Read full story
Endpoints News