Back To White Oak: US FDA Adcomms Go Fully In-Person, Starting With Antimicrobials Panel

The 9 September meeting on Iterum Therapeutics' oral sulopenem product for uncomplicated urinary tract infections marks the first fully in-person advisory committee drug review since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020.

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As children return to school, advisory committee members and public speakers will be returning to the FDA's White Oak headquarters in September. • Source: Shutterstock

[Editor's note: A version of this story appeared first in our sister publication, Pink Sheet.]

The month of September will herald the first fully in-person US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meeting on a...

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