ICER President Steve Pearson expresses interest in setting drug costs for accelerated approval drugs low with price increases based on confirmatory evidence ahead of upcoming white paper from the group.

As sponsors and US FDA continue to face fallout, newly launched digital archive of industry documents from opioid litigation and settlements will be free public resource for those investigating activities that led to the opioid epidemic. It is modeled on the archive of tobacco industry documents, which has been the basis of about 1,000 scientific publications.

After discovery of viral vector cross-contamination, AstraZeneca quit, J&J took control and the FDA launched inspection.

Cidara partners its antiviral conjugate platform for seasonal and pandemic influenza with Janssen, which also gets option rights to an AVC candidate for respiratory syncytial virus.