GSK’s Arexvy vaccine for preventing lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus in adults aged 60 years and older is among the latest products that the European Medicines Agency said should be approved for use in the EU.

A number of companies could soon find out whether the European Medicines Agency will back pan-EU marketing approval for their respective products.

Alongside CSL/Behring/uniQure’s Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), the European Medicines Agency has given the green light to new drugs for liver cancer, NSCLC, Pompe disease and multiple sclerosis. But it turned down omburtamab for treating the rare cancer, neuroblastoma.  

Four of the six products up for a marketing authorization opinion from the EMA’s advisory committee, the CHMP, this week are orphan drugs. One of them, omburtamab, was recently turned down by a US FDA advisory panel.