Europe's CHMP takes divergent stance to FDA on dapagliflozin, clearing it for treating diabetes if AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb conduct a post-marketing study. The committee also cleared ruxolitinib and ferumoxytol, but rejected Folotyn, for EU marketing.
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Some companies must answer to shareholders as blockbuster drugs come off patent, while others look to their pipeline’s future in diverse collaborations.
France's DBV Technologies lists on NYSE Euronext in Paris and targets peanut and other food allergies for the first clinical studies of its epicutaneous patches as allergy desensitization therapies.