Beerse, Belgium (Press Release) – The Janssen Pharma­ceu­tical Com­panies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that the European Com­mis­sion (EC) has granted mar­ket­ing authori­sa­tion for Darzalex^® (dara­tu­mu­mab) for use as frontline (initial) ther­apy. The approval is for the use of dara­tu­mu­mab in com­bi­na­tion with bor­tez­o­mib, mel­phalan and pred­ni­sone (VMP), for the treat­ment of adult patients with newly diag­nosed multiple myeloma who are in­eli­gible for au­tol­o­gous stem cell trans­plant (ASCT).

The approval is based on results from the ran­domised, open-label, multicentre Phase 3 ALCYONE (MMY3007) study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine …

• DARZALEX approved in Europe in com­bi­na­tion with bor­tez­o­mib, mel­phalan and pred­ni­sone in patients with newly diag­nosed multiple myeloma
• Approval follows pos­i­tive opinion by European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) in July
• Genmab to receive mile­stone pay­ment of USD 13 million from Janssen upon first sale of DARZALEX in the newly approved indi­ca­tion

Copenhagen, Denmark (Press Release) – Genmab A/S (Nasdaq Copenhagen: GEN) announced today that the European Com­mis­sion (EC) has granted mar­ket­ing authori­za­tion for DARZALEX^® (dara­tu­mu­mab) in com­bi­na­tion with bor­tez­o­mib, mel­phalan and pred­ni­sone (VMP), for the treat­ment of adult patients with newly diag­nosed multiple myeloma who are in­eli­gible for au­tol­o­gous stem cell trans­plant (ASCT). The EC approval follows a pos­i­tive opinion issued for DARZALEX by the CHMP of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in July 2018. In August 2012, Genmab granted Janssen Biotech, Inc. (Janssen) …

Application based on re­­sults from Phase 2 ELOQUENT-3 study

Princeton, NJ (Press Release) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Com­pany (NYSE:BMY) to­day an­nounced that the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­istra­tion (FDA) ac­cepted its supple­mental Biologics License Appli­ca­tion (sBLA) for Empliciti (elo­tuzu­mab) in com­bi­na­tion with poma­lido­mide and low-dose dexa­meth­a­sone (EPd) for the treat­ment of patients with re­lapsed / re­frac­tory mul­ti­ple myeloma (RRMM) who have re­ceived at least two prior ther­a­pies, in­­clud­ing lena­lido­mide and a pro­te­a­some in­hib­i­tor. The FDA granted the appli­ca­tion priority review with an action date of De­cem­ber 27, 2018.

“This file ac­ceptance is an im­por­tant step in BMS’s on­go­ing efforts to ad­vance …

• sBLA & Type II Variation submitted to U.S. FDA and the EMA re­spec­tive­ly, seeking approval of split dosing regi­men for DARZALEX
• Applications seek to update Prescribing Information and Summary of Product Characteristics
• Submissions sup­ported by data from EQUULEUS (MMY1001) clin­i­cal trial

Copenhagen, Denmark (Press Release) – Genmab A/S (Nasdaq Copenhagen: GEN) announced today that its licensing partner, Janssen Biotech, Inc., has submitted a supple­mental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­istra­tion (U.S. FDA) and a Type II Variation to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking approval of a split dosing regi­men for DARZALEX^® (dara­tu­mu­mab). The appli­ca­tions request to update the Prescribing Information and Summary of Product Characteristics in order to provide health care professionals the option of splitting …

Raritan, NJ and Beerse, Belgium (Press Release) – The Janssen Pharma­ceu­tical Com­panies of Johnson & Johnson announced today the sub­mission of a supple­mental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­istra­tion (FDA) and a Type II Variation to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking approval of a split dosing regi­men for DARZALEX^® (dara­tu­mu­mab). The appli­ca­tions seek to update the Prescribing Information and Summary of Product Characteristics to provide health care professionals with the option to split the first in­fusion of DARZALEX^® over two consecutive days. The sub­missions are sup­ported by …

Shanghai, China (Press Release) – On August 8, 2018 Beijing time I-Mab Bio­pharma ("I-Mab"), a Shanghai-based bio­tech com­pany focused on inno­va­tive biologics in on­col­ogy and auto­immune dis­ease, and German biopharma com­pany MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX;NASDAQ: MOR) an­nounced to­day that I-Mab has Submitted an inves­ti­ga­tional new drug (IND) appli­ca­tion to China National Drug Admin­istra­tion (CNDA) for TJ202 / MOR202, a human mono­clonal anti­body directed against CD38 for the treat­ment of multiple myeloma.

Multiple myeloma is the sec­ond most common blood cancer world­wide. The patient number has gradually in­­creased in China in …

Beerse, Belgium (Press Release) – The Janssen Pharma­ceu­tical Com­panies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has rec­om­mended broadening the existing mar­ket­ing authori­sa­tion for Darzalex® (dara­tu­mu­mab) for use as frontline (initial) ther­apy.¹ The recom­men­da­tion is for the use of dara­tu­mu­mab in com­bi­na­tion with bor­tez­o­mib, mel­phalan and pred­ni­sone, for the treat­ment of adult patients with newly diag­nosed multiple myeloma who are in­eli­gible for au­tol­o­gous stem cell trans­plant (ASCT).¹

“Multiple myeloma be­comes harder to treat each time it returns, so …