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Zachary Brennan
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Former FDA commissioner Marty Makary's legacy continues. Before his exit, Makary pushed several initiatives that would be specifically advantageous to American biopharma companies, under President Trump's "America First" platform. And many of those initiatives are moving forward, with the IND pilot launch yesterday, touted as an "America First" achievement in a blog post by top FDA leaders, and today's final public meeting on the next PDUFA agreement (see more below), with deputy commissioner for policy Grace Graham touting the America First provisions that were inserted. Stay tuned for more on how these policies make the US more competitive with China.

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Zachary Brennan
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by Zachary Brennan

Yale and Har­vard med­ical school fac­ul­ty are ques­tion­ing whether the FDA and Amer­i­can com­pa­nies will ac­tu­al­ly ben­e­fit from the US-fo­cused in­cen­tives in the next user...

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by Max Bayer

The FDA’s long-await­ed ex­pe­dit­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tion­al new drug pi­lot pro­gram be­gan ac­cept­ing ap­pli­ca­tions Tues­day, with top agency of­fi­cials in­cor­po­rat­ing pub­lic feed­back in­to who should qual­i­fy.

Karim...

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by Zachary Brennan

As more rare dis­ease treat­ments make their way to the FDA, the agency on Mon­day called for fur­ther out­side in­put as it grap­ples with how...

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by Max Bayer

Top HHS of­fi­cial Chris Klomp had a rel­a­tive­ly mild nom­i­na­tion hear­ing with sen­a­tors on Tues­day, but he sparred with Sen. Eliz­a­beth War­ren (D-MA) over vol­un­tary...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

As the FDA ramps up its ef­fort to ac­cel­er­ate the de­vel­op­ment of psy­che­del­ic ther­a­pies, men­tal health ex­perts on Mon­day urged the agency to con­sid­er cer­tain...

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by Anna Brown

Schol­ar Rock has won FDA ap­proval for its drug treat­ing a rare mus­cle-wast­ing dis­ease, af­ter fac­ing de­lays due to a trou­bled man­u­fac­tur­ing fac­to­ry.

The in­jectable...

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