Pink Sheet Podcast: Pfizer Pulls Sickle Cell Drug, ODAC Calls Back Approved Products, New AAM CEO
Executive Summary
Pink Sheet reporters and editors discuss Pfizer’s abrupt decision to withdraw Oxbryta, the US FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee bringing sponsors of approved products back to discuss labeling changes while competitors are pending, and the new CEO of a generic industry trade association.
Pink Sheet Executive Editor Derrick Gingery, Senior Writer Sarah Karlin-Smith, Reporter Alaric DeArment, and Interim Editor-in-Chief Nielsen Hobbs discuss the issues that lead Pfizer Inc. to pull the sickle cell disease treatment Oxbryta (voxelitor) from global markets (:32), the impact of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting about labeling changes for approved drugs along with pending competitors (10:46), as well as the decision by the Association for Accessible Medicines to name John Murphy, a former brand trade association executive, as its new president and CEO (27:34).
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