FDA granted priority review for atezolizumab (MPDL3280A) for the treatment of people with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer whose disease expresses the protein PD-L1, as determined by an FDA-approved test, and who have progressed on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy. “In a study of atezolizumab in people with previously treated advanced lung cancer,...
Last week, Richard Pazdur was named to the position of director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Much has been written about how Pazdur, with nearly a three-decade long career at the agency, represents a stabilizing choice for FDA as it faces inner and outer turmoil.
