{"id":228314,"date":"2026-01-03T21:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/2025-fda-approvals"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:05:36","slug":"2025-fda-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/2025-fda-approvals","title":{"rendered":"2025 FDA approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2025-fda-approvals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of interesting information! The Zevaskyn (\u201ca first cell-sheet-based gene therapy\u201d) approval for treating epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is particularly uplifting. Back in high school, I knew someone with EB. It is a devastating disease. On the less happy side, an AAV9 therapy and an oncolytic virus therapy were rejected this year. [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41573-026-00001-z\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41573-026-00001-z<\/a>](<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41573-026-00001-z\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41573-026-00001-z<\/a>) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The US FDA approved 46 new drugs in 2025, despite a tumultuous year at the regulatory agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of interesting information! The Zevaskyn (\u201ca first cell-sheet-based gene therapy\u201d) approval for treating epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is particularly uplifting. Back in high school, I knew someone with EB. It is a devastating disease. On the less happy side, an AAV9 therapy and an oncolytic virus therapy were rejected this year. [ https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41573-026-00001-z](https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41573-026-00001-z) The US [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}