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Continued process verification – a challenge for the pharmaceutical industry?

10 March 2015 | By Michael Rommerskirchen, Boehringer Ingelheim

Nowadays, professional quality and process data trending is key for science-based pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued revised process validation guidance to enforce recurring data analysis as a regulatory core requirement1,2: Periodic product and process monitoring, also known…

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Amgen receives positive CHMP opinion for use of Vectibix® (panitumumab) as first-line treatment for advanced colorectal cancer

2 March 2015 | By Amgen

Amgen announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency adopted a positive opinion to extend the marketing authorization for Vectibix® (panitumumab) to include combination with FOLFIRI (an irinotecan-based chemotherapy) as first-line treatment in adult patients with wild-type RAS metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)...

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European Commission approves additional indication for VELCADE® (bortezomib) in mantle cell lymphoma

6 February 2015 | By Janssen EMEA

Janssen-Cilag International NV (Janssen) announced today that the European Commission has approved a variation to the terms of the marketing authorisation of VELCADE® (bortezomib) in combination with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone for the treatment of adult patients with previously untreated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who are unsuitable for blood…

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Application submitted to the EMA to expand the therapeutic indication for IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) to include treatment of Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

1 December 2014 | By Janssen-Cilag International

Janssen-Cilag International NV (Janssen) announced today the submission of a Type II variation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to vary the marketing authorisation for IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib), to include a new therapeutic indication, the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM). If approved, this latest regulatory submission will…