The European Medicines Agency has extended the time that Cominarty can spend in a fridge after defrosting and could this week issue advice to member states on sotrovimab for use in COVID-19 patients. Norway’s BerGenBio has published top-line data from a Phase II trial of of bemcentinib, and IcanoMAB has outlined the potential of its anti-IL-1R7 antibody.

Myovant, Bayer and Rhythm Pharmaceuticals are among the companies that could soon learn whether the European Medicines Agency thinks their drugs are fit for approval.

Teva has launched the first US generic version of Thiola (tiopronin) tablets in the US, shortly after launching first generic versions of isotretinoin capsules and generic oerythromycin tablets. 

Samsung Bioepis reiterated that the US pharma market is “the most fragmented and the most complicated market in the world” as it discussed its biosimilar fortunes in Europe.