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1. FDA's next fee deal, stacked with US incentives, is under White House review
2. Exclusive: Bipartisan group of lawmakers unveil new bill to restrict China biotech
3. FDA details flexibilities for new cell and gene therapies to leverage past data
4. Explaining unapproved drugs to payors: FDA offers pharma new guidance to avoid pitfalls
5. The cost of a PRV is twice as high as it was three years ago — and it’s likely to stay that way 
6. Replimune to ask FDA for re-review of melanoma drug, as agency stands by past rejections
7. Shionogi wins US approval for first pill to prevent Covid following exposure
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Three FDA-related tidbits worth keeping an eye on: 1) Acting FDA Comissioner Kyle Diamantas met with key Republican lawmakers (e.g. Sens. John Hoeven and Bill Cassidy, and Reps. Andy Harris and Brett Guthrie) late last month. Is another nominee coming ahead of the midterm elections? 2) Diamantas is expected to meet with rare disease groups today following questions on some key approvals. 3) Stay tuned for more on two potentially interesting FDA meetings tomorrow on the commissioner's national priority review voucher and cell and gene therapies.

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Zachary Brennan
Senior Editor, Endpoints News
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by Zachary Brennan

The White House is ex­am­in­ing a deal re­cent­ly reached by the FDA and the bio­phar­ma in­dus­try that sets the pre­scrip­tion drug user fees that the...

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Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI) (Lenin Nolly/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images)
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by Max Bayer

A bi­par­ti­san group of Michi­gan law­mak­ers re­leased a new bill that could great­ly sti­fle the boom­ing cross-bor­der deals spree be­tween Chi­nese and Amer­i­can biotechs.

Rep...

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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA is fur­ther ex­plain­ing to cell and gene ther­a­py de­vel­op­ers the types of pri­or knowl­edge com­pa­nies can lever­age for clin­i­cal, non­clin­i­cal and man­u­fac­tur­ing-re­lat­ed work...

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by Zachary Brennan

Bio­phar­ma com­pa­nies prepar­ing to launch the next prac­tice-chang­ing block­busters want pay­ors to know what's com­ing be­fore they ul­ti­mate­ly land an FDA ap­proval. The trick is...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

How much is a reg­u­la­to­ry short­cut worth?

The cost of a pri­or­i­ty re­view vouch­er, which short­ens the FDA’s stan­dard re­view time by about four months...

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by Max Bayer

Third time’s the charm?

Replimune an­nounced Fri­daythat it will sub­mit its ad­vanced melanoma drug RP1 for FDA re­view af­ter two pri­or re­jec­tions. It said...

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by Zachary Brennan

Japan's Sh­iono­gi on Mon­day said it won FDA ap­provalfor its oral an­tivi­ral to pre­vent Covid‑19 in adults and chil­dren old­er than 12 years who...

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