FDA's voluntary Quality Management Maturity Program is quietly building toward a real quality rating system. Here's what it measures and what's at stake.
Accelerated approval gets discussed constantly in the abstract — surrogate endpoints, confirmatory trials, the theoretical risk of a drug reaching market on thinner evidence. A decision earlier this month gives a live, current example of what that pathway actually looks like in practice, end to end. On July 7, 2026, FDA granted accelerated approval to Vera Therapeutics' atacicept-vymj, to be marketed as Trutakna, for reducing proteinuria in adults with primary IgA nephropathy