South Korea’s SK Bioscience voluntarily withdrew its EU conditional marketing authorization application (MAA) for SKYCovion/GBP510, a recombinant COVID-19 vaccine, on 1 September, ahead of this week’s meeting of the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee, the CHMP.
SK Bioscience Pulls EU Filing For COVID Jab As Regulators Shift Focus To XBB Vaccines
The European Medicines Agency’s CHMP was set to adopt opinions on SK Bioscience’s COVID-19 vaccine and Mycovia/Gedeon’s Vivjoa for vulvovaginal candidiasis during its September meeting, but both marketing authorization filings were voluntarily withdrawn.

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