PHARMACY MARKET
Sanofi | November 17, 2020
When a new drug goes in front of the FDA for consideration, a lot of moving pieces must be in place for a successful review—manufacturing standards included. That didn't happen for Sanofi, which is pressing pause on a rare disease candidate after the FDA found issues at a contract manufacturer's plant.
The FDA blasted a third-party manufacturer of Sanofi's rare blood disease drug sutimlimab in a complete response letter, citing "certain deficiencies" at the contractor's site, the French drugmaker said Friday.
A Sanofi spokeswoman declined to specify who the manufacturer cited in the FDA's letter was or what the nature of the deficiencies were.
With its application on hold, Sanofi said it would work with its manufacturer and the FDA to resolve the issues in a "timely manner." The drugmaker didn't say how quickly it expected to turn around a new application.
The untimely feedback from the FDA dims C1 inhibitor sutimlimab's chances in cold agglutinin disease (CAD), a rare blood disease characterized by anemia, fatigue and other symptoms.
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RESEARCH
Parexel, Veeva Systems | May 04, 2021
Parexel and Veeva Systems announced a strategic partnership today to accelerate clinical trials through technological and process innovation. The unique partnership blends the best of each company's expertise through thousands of tests worldwide – Parexel as a pioneering CRO and Veeva as the technological innovator powering trials – to boost study performance and bring innovative therapies to patients faster.
Parexel is standardizing Veeva's suite of clinical operations software, including Veeva Vault eTMF, Vault CTMS, and Vault Study Startup, as part of the agreement to streamline operations. Parexel's clients will now have access to Veeva Vault CDMS for clinical data storage as a free product.
The companies will work together to continually develop Veeva's cloud technology and Parexel's clinical trial delivery processes based on the insights from sponsors, sites, and patients. Parexel will provide early access to and give feedback on Veeva's clinical products, such as innovations to support sites and patients in decentralized clinical trials (DCT), risk-based quality management (RBQM), and community-based sites.
"By implementing Veeva's clinical solutions, we can streamline trial procedures, increase performance, and make trial implementation and attendance simpler for promoters, locations, and patients," Parexel CEO Jamie Macdonald said. "Through this extended relationship with Veeva, we hope to have more value to customers and have a much greater effect on the lives of patients."
"We're happy to work with Parexel to fuel customer success and accelerate clinical research innovation," said Peter Gassner, Veeva's founder, and CEO. "By working together, we will help our customers get new vaccines, diagnostics, devices, and therapies to patients in need"
About Parexel
Parexel encourages the development of new innovative drugs to improve patient health. It provides services to clients in the life sciences and biopharmaceutical industries all over the world to help them transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. The therapeutic, technological, and functional ability is underpinned by a strong conviction in what we do, from decentralized clinical trials to regulatory advisory services to exploiting real-world insights. An independent council for Informa Pharma Intelligence voted Parexel the "Best Contract Research Organization" in December 2020.
About Veeva Systems
Veeva is the world's leading provider of cloud software for the life sciences industry. Veeva represents over 975 clients, ranging from the world's leading pharmaceutical firms to new biotechs, and is dedicated to innovation, product excellence, and customer success. Veeva is committed to balancing the needs of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves, as a Public Benefit Corporation.
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Prnewswire | August 20, 2020
Medicure Inc. a pharmaceutical company, today announced the termination of the marketing and distribution agreement with Sensible Medical Innovations Inc. ("Sensible") for the marketing of the ReDSTM Pro ("ReDS Pro") device in the United States. In connection with the termination, Sensible and the Company have entered into a transition agreement which provides additional compensation to Medicure for sales to customer leads provided by Medicure. Medicure continues to hold a 7.71% equity stake, on a fully diluted basis, in Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd. ("Sensible Medical"), the parent company of Sensible. Medicure will continue to support Sensible in its transition to a new marketing and distribution arrangement in order to secure its investment in Sensible Medical.
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