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Genentech review of Tessier-Lavigne paper finds no evidence of fraud — but hints at a different misconduct case

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South San Francisco biotech Genentech on Thursday announced that an internal review of misconduct allegations concerning a landmark 2009 paper co-authored by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former top executive at the company and Stanford University’s current president, did not find any evidence of fraud or intentional wrongdoing.

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STAT+: White House moves closer to a ban on menthol cigarettes, amid intensifying opposition from tobacco companies

STAT

The tobacco industry has already spent the last few months doing everything it can to drum up opposition, from drafting letters for members of Congress to rallying freedom-focused smokers, according to a review of advertising databases, leaked documents, and research reports.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Woodcock to retire from the FDA; Acrotech urged to speed up confirmatory study of cancer drugs

STAT

They were approved under the FDA accelerated pathway in 2009 and 2014, respectively, for treating a rare form of blood cancer. The  The company’s final study plan was submitted to the FDA in 2022 and is expected to be completed  by 2030 , according to FDA briefing documents published earlier this week.

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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Fever with Rash

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

Fever was documented to be 102°F and was not associated with any chills or rigors. 2009 Jan;11(1):66-72. A 40-year-old male, tailor by occupation, was brought to the Emergency Department with complaints of high-grade fever for the past 11 days. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2007 Dec;21(4):997-1011, ix. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.08.002.

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Driving QbD as a quality standard in drug development

European Pharmaceutical Review

While advantages to the Quality by Design approach is clear and practical implementation of Quality by Design is encouraged by publication of public guidance documents ICH Q8(R2) – ICH Q14, the industry has not yet fully embraced the QbD approach in Marketing Authorisation Applications (MAAs) for European market approval, the authors noted.

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Tick Tock re Tik Tok and FDA’s OPDP

Eye on FDA

And FDA made tacit acknowledgement of the fact when it held a public Part 15 meeting in April 2009 to put forth a framework for the discussion of regulating social and digital media, with the aim of developing a guidance related to the unique challenges offered up by new media shortly thereafter. In fact, the medium does matter.

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From genes to greens: Recombinant revolution in nutraceuticals

Express Pharma

It was not until 2009 that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published a ‘Guideline on the quality of biological active substances produced by stable transgene expression in higher plants.’ Regulatory The fact that plant biotechnology is still in its early stages, recombinant nutraceutical manufacturing is complicated.