The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new draft guidance on October 29, 2025, proposing what it said were “major updates to simplify biosimilarity studies and reduce unnecessary clinical testing.”
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11/3/2025
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The regulatory landscape for biosimilars is undergoing significant change on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent developments signal a potential shift away from the requirement for a clinical efficacy study as an approval...more
9/29/2025
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Interchangeability ,
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Regulatory Requirements
On August 15, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit limited FDA's ability to deny a hearing on the approvability of a new drug application (NDA) based on a lack of “substantial evidence.”...more
9/12/2025
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Substantial Evidence
In 2025, Life Sciences and Health Care (LS&HC) companies face rapidly evolving regulatory paradigms that create transactional risks and require daily monitoring. After more than 70 national elections in 2024, the dust hasn’t...more
8/25/2025
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This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted additional information on its recently announced “Commissioner's National Priority Voucher” (CNPV) program, which will provide up to five vouchers in the program's...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday a “Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher” (CNPV) program, which will provide a “limited number” of vouchers to sponsors of drug products that are “aligned with...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has introduced “Elsa,” a generative AI tool designed to enhance the efficiency of its regulatory operations. Elsa's deployment comes nearly a month ahead of the agency’s original...more
On May 21, 2025 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued renewed warning letters to five companies regarding over 200 allegedly improperly-listed patents in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Orange Book. Announcing...more
If the initiative proceeds as planned, it will mark a pivotal shift in the regulatory landscape, introducing both efficiencies and novel questions related to the reliability and validity of the AI reviews, as well as...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs and biological products “with more effective,...more
Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced an impending reduction in force (RIF) of approximately 10,000 positions, including about 3,500 Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued final guidance on “M13A Bioequivalence for Immediate-Release Solid Oral Dosage Forms,” which provides advice on conducting bioequivalence (BE) studies – during both...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued this week three guidance documents related to clinical trials: a draft guidance on multiregional trials in oncology, a draft guidance on integrating randomized controlled...more
On August 20, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a comment letter in support of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) June 2024 draft guidance on biosimilar interchangeability (the “Draft Guidance”). When...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a revision of its final guidance on “Application User Fees for Combination Products,” replacing guidance of the same name from 2005. The revision modernizes the guidance...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a podcast on biosimilars, featuring Dr. Sarah Yim, director of FDA’s Office of Therapeutic Biologics and Biosimilars (OTBB), that seems to indicate a potential...more
On April 30, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it sent a new set of warning letters to ten pharmaceutical companies. The letters inform the companies that the FTC has notified the Food and Drug...more
On January 5, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Florida’s proposal under the Section 804 Importation Program (SIP) to allow Florida to proceed to the next steps in the regulatory process to import...more
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it issued warning letters to 10 drug manufacturers and challenged the Orange Book listings for around 100 patents under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued new revised draft guidance on “Labeling for Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biosimilar Products,” which most notably dispenses with any recommendation that...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) generic drug program has launched a new pilot program to offer meeting opportunities to generic drug applicants who intend to use model-integrated evidence (MIE) approaches to...more
The Supreme Court of the United States has denied certiorari in the Teva v. GSK “skinny labeling” case, leaving intact the Federal Circuit’s August 2021 decision, which we summarized online here. In the article below, we...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published the draft guidance “Sameness Evaluations in an ANDA – Active Ingredients,” which aims to assist applicants preparing an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) by...more
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Office of Orphan Product Development published the four-page final guidance “Interpreting Sameness of Gene Therapy Products Under the Orphan Drug Regulations,” which...more
Earlier this month, in GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed (2-1) upon rehearing its October 2020 decision that a labeling...more
8/26/2021
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