EU Cites Serious Tavneos Trial Breaches After Pulling Amgen Authorization
European regulators released their rationale for withdrawing Amgen’s rare-disease drug Tavneos, citing serious breaches of proper clinical trial guidelines in the pivotal study. Unblinded efficacy data became visible after database lock, certain patients were re-adjudicated, and the primary result changed to significant—without regulator notification. The EMA found the overall study unreliable and the submitted results misleading, and the FDA is also scrutinizing Tavneos.