Taiho Oncology Inc. and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted for priority review the New Drug Application (NDA) for futibatinib in the treatment of patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) harboring FGFR2 gene rearrangements, including gene fusions.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted for filing the New Drug Application submitted by Acer Therapeutics Inc. and the company’s collaboration partner Relief Therapeutics Holding SA for ACER-001 (sodium phenylbutyrate) for the treatment of patients with Urea Cycle Disorders.

Ipsen’s New Drug Application (NDA) for palovarotene – an oral, investigational, selective RARγ agonist for the prevention of heterotopic ossification (new bone formation) as a potential treatment option for people living with the progressive disabling and ultra-rare genetic disorder fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) – was accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

AstraZeneca spinout Albireo Pharma is moving closer to securing regulatory approval for the company’s treatment of pruritus in patients with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted for review Impel NeuroPharma’s 5O5(b)(2) New Drug Application (NDA) for INP104 for the acute treatment of migraine headaches with or without aura in adults.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted Copenhagen, Denmark-based Orphazyme’s New Drug Application (NDA) for arimoclomol for the treatment of Niemann-Pick disease Type C.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted the filing of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s New Drug Application (NDA) for voclosporin as a potential treatment for lupus nephritis, a serious inflammation of the kidneys caused by the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s application for an antipsychotic drug to treat dementia patients with hallucinations and delusions.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted a New Drug Application and two supplemental NDAs for Genentech’s Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil).

Eton Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that Aucta Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s New Drug Application for ET-105, an innovative formulation of lamotrigine which Eton acquired the U.S. marketing rights to in June 2019, was accepted for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.