Ongoing | Infectious Disease Accelerated Approvals (excluding vaccines)
This listing includes accelerated approvals (AAs) for infectious disease indications that have postmarketing requirement(s) for ongoing clinical trial(s) to verify clinical benefit.
Please refer to Drugs@FDA for the latest approvals and prescribing information for specific products. See Postmarket Requirements and Commitments for the status of specific requirements.
Visit Accelerated Approvals for listings of ongoing, verified clinical benefit, and withdrawn infectious diseases and non-malignant hematological, neurological, and other disorder indications accelerated approvals.
Indications may remain on this page until FDA updates product labeling or publishes a Federal Register notice regarding a change in status.
Ongoing 1Infectious Diseases Accelerated Approvals
Total approval time was adjusted based on management decision. This is a legacy practice and is no longer exercised.
| Drug Name | Accelerated Approval Indication | Accelerated Approval Date | AA PMR | Original Projected Completion Date 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hepcludex (bulevirtide-gmod) | Treatment of chronic hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection in adults without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis | 5/22/2026 | PMR 4982-1: Complete an observational study in adult patients with chronic hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection to verify and describe the clinical benefit of bulevirtide-gmod induced reductions in HDV RNA levels and ALT normalization. The study should collect, analyze, and compare long-term data, with up to 5 years of follow-up, on liver-related clinical outcomes (i.e., development of cirrhosis, hepatic decompensation, liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver-related death) in patients treated with bulevirtide-gmod versus a historical control group of adult patients with chronic HDV infection who received standard of care and were not treated with bulevirtide-gmod. | 6/30/2034 |
| Benznidazole | For the treatment of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), caused by trypanosoma cruzi, in pediatric patients 2 to 12 years of age | 8/29/2017 | PMR 3247-1: Conduct a prospective, single-arm, multicenter trial, with historical controls, to evaluate safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of benznidazole tablets for treatment of Chagas disease in children. | 5/31/2026 |
| Arikayce (amikacin liposome inhalation suspension) | For the treatment of mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease as part of a combination antibacterial drug regimen in patients who do not achieve negative sputum cultures after a minimum of 6 consecutive months of a multidrug background regimen therapy. As only limited clinical safety and effectiveness data for arikayce are currently available, reserve arikayce for use in adults who have limited or no alternative treatment options. This drug is indicated for use in a limited and specific population of patients. this indication is approved under accelerated approval based on achieving sputum culture conversion (defined as 3 consecutive negative monthly sputum cultures) by month 6. Clinical benefit has not yet been established | 9/28/2018 | PMR 3480-1: Conduct a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to assess and describe the clinical benefit of ARIKAYCE in patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease caused by MAC. The trial will evaluate the effect of ARIKAYCE on a clinically meaningful endpoint, as compared to an appropriate control in the intended patient population of patients with MAC infection. | 6/30/2024 |
- 1"Ongoing" refers to accelerated approval (AA) applications that have not yet converted to full approval, and not to the status of the AA postmarketing requirement (PMR).
- 2If multiple PMRs were required, the latest date is reported here. This date represents the original agreed-upon Final Study Report date and does not include any updated deadlines submitted by the Applicant.