The confluence of data science and molecular biology fuels expectations among biopharma industry leaders for another year of breakthrough innovation in human therapeutics. More than 70 executives and experts reveal what they are most excited about on the technology front.

But company says the 9 March advisory committee meeting ‘currently does not have any impact’ on Polivy’s existing accelerated approval indication in the third-line setting; agency may be seeking input on the robustness of the progression-free survival benefit and uncertainties about overall survival data in the POLARIX Phase III trial in previously untreated DLBCL.

The BTK inhibitor demonstrated superiority to AbbVie/J&J’s Imbruvica for overall response in relapsed/refractory CLL, in addition to hitting a progression-free survival endpoint versus chemotherapy in the first-line.

FDA is hoping Congress might take up proposed legislation governing the regulation of diagnostic tests produced in laboratories in 2023. That will make it a full decade of stalemate since FDA outlined a framework to address the new reality of personalized medicine.