Yutiq, for posterior uveitis, will compete with two existing steroid products and should launch during the first quarter of 2019. EyePoint’s Dexycu, although approved in February, is still in scale-up and probably will launch a bit later.

The European Medicines Agency’s key scientific committee, the CHMP, is deciding this week whether a dozen or so new medicines that are in the final stages of the evaluation process should be approved for marketing across the EU. The committee will discuss 13 initial marketing authorization applications.

Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s ambitions to expand the use of their HER-2 targeted antibody-drug conjugate product beyond breast cancer are looking realizable on the back of new results presented at ASCO, but toxicities remain an issue.