Tag: European Commission

Bagsværd, Denmark, 23 June 2025 – Novo Nordisk today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for an update of the Ozempic^® (once-weekly semaglutide) label to reflect the positive data from the STRIDE peripheral artery disease (PAD) functional outcomes trial.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland and LONDON, June 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO), a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide and Advanz Pharma, a UK headquartered global pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on specialty, hospital, and rare disease medicines in Europe, today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion recommending approval for AVT06, Alvotech’s proposed biosimilar to Eylea® (aflibercept 2 mg). Based on a positive recommendation by CHMP, biosimilar medicines can be approved by the European Commission for marketing in the European Economic Area, that includes the 27 member states of the European Union, in addition to Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND and LONDON, UK (June 23, 2025) — Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO), a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide and Advanz Pharma, a UK headquartered global pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on specialty, hospital, and rare disease medicines in Europe, today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion recommending approval for AVT06, Alvotech’s proposed biosimilar to Eylea® (aflibercept 2 mg). Based on a positive recommendation by CHMP, biosimilar medicines can be approved by the European Commission for marketing in the European Economic Area, that includes the 27 member states of the European Union, in addition to Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.

– If approved, nirogacestat will be the first and only therapy with marketing authorization in the EU for the treatment of desmoid tumors –

PARIS, FRANCE, 20 June 2025 - Ipsen (Euronext: IPN; ADR: IPSEY) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion for Cabometyx® (cabozantinib) for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic, well differentiated extra-pancreatic (epNET) and pancreatic (pNET) neuroendocrine tumors who have progressed following at least one prior systemic therapy other than somatostatin analogues. This recommendation is based on results from the CABINET Phase III trial presented at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2024 and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.^3,4 A final decision on the approval in the European Union is expected in the coming months.