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FDA appoints Tracy Beth Høeg as fifth CDER head this year   

Høeg’s appointment to director of CDER follows a turbulent period for the department, which recently saw the retirement of former head, Richard Padzur.

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FDA approves Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca in relapsed or refractory CLL/SLL

The decision broadens Jaypirca’s label and converts the December 2023 accelerated approval to a traditional approval status.

Win for pharma in UK – zero US tariffs, VPAG rate cap and NICE threshold increase

The UK government has also pledged to double the portion of GDP that it allocates to innovative drugs, from 0.3% to 0.6%, over the next ten years.

Formosa and Rxilient sign licensing agreement for APP13007

The agreement includes upfront payments, sales and regulatory milestones.

Richard Padzur to leave FDA following recent CDER leadership shift

If Padzur retires, he would become one of several high-ranking FDA officials who left the agency in 2025.

FDA steps back from preclinical primate testing amid wider regulatory shift 

New non-primate draft guidance follows the agency’s wider aim to curtail the use of animal testing in preclinical toxicology.