Valneva said on April 25 that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) had asked for more data on the company’s COVID-19 vaccine, precipitating a sharp fall in the French drugmaker’s shares.

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced Conditional Marketing Authorization (CMA) of RYBREVANT (amivantamab) for the treatment of adult patients with advanced NSCLC with activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 20 insertion mutations, after failure of platinum-based therapy.

The European Commission gave conditional approval for the use of remdesivir in severe COVID-19 patients following an accelerated review process, making the antiviral the region’s first authorized therapy to treat the virus.