New FDA Approvals: FDA Gives Accelerated Approval to Mirati’s Krazati

Dec. 12: The FDA gave accelerated approval to Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.’s Krazati (adagrasib) for the treatment of adults with KRAS^G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as determined by an FDA-approved test (see below brief), who have received at least one systemic therapy. Dosing for the tablet is 600 mg twice daily. The drug is priced at $19,750 per month.

Dec. 12: The FDA approved two companion diagnostics for Krazati (see above brief): Agilent Technologies Inc.’s Agilent Resolution ctDx FIRST assay and Qiagen N.V.’s Qiagen therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR kit. A liquid biopsy next-generation sequencing assay, the Agilent test detects genomic alterations in circulating tumor DNA from plasma. The Qiagen test, first approved July 6, 2012, is a tissue-based assay.