Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa.
School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa.
Molecules. 2024 Jan 25;29(3):585. doi: 10.3390/molecules29030585.
With the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved 55 new drugs in 2023, a figure consistent with the number authorized in the last five years (53 per year on average). Thus, 2023 marks the second-best yearly FDA harvest after 2018 (59 approvals) in all the series. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) continue to be the class of drugs with the most approvals, with an exceptional 12, a number that makes it the most outstanding year for this class. As in 2022, five proteins/enzymes have been approved in 2023. However, no antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have been released onto the market. With respect to TIDES (peptides and oligonucleotides), 2023 has proved a spectacular year, with a total of nine approvals, corresponding to five peptides and four oligonucleotides. Natural products continue to be the best source of inspiration for drug development, with 10 new products on the market. Three drugs in this year's harvest are pegylated, which may indicate the return of pegylation as a method to increase the half-lives of drugs after the withdrawal of peginesatide from the market in 2013. Following the trends in recent years, two bispecific drugs have been authorized in 2023. As in the preceding years, fluorine and/or N-aromatic heterocycles are present in most of the drugs. Herein, the 55 new drugs approved by the FDA in 2023 are analyzed exclusively on the basis of their chemical structure. They are classified as the following: biologics (antibodies, proteins/enzymes); TIDES (peptide and oligonucleotides); combined drugs; pegylated drugs; natural products; nitrogen aromatic heterocycles; fluorine-containing molecules; and other small molecules.
随着新冠疫情的结束,美国食品和药物管理局(FDA)在 2023 年批准了 55 种新药物,这一数字与过去五年(平均每年 53 种)批准的数量一致。因此,2023 年是所有系列中仅次于 2018 年(59 种批准)的第二好的 FDA 丰收年。单克隆抗体(mAbs)仍然是批准药物最多的一类,有 12 种,这是该类药物最杰出的一年。与 2022 年一样,2023 年批准了 5 种蛋白质/酶。然而,没有抗体药物偶联物(ADCs)投放市场。就 TIDES(肽和寡核苷酸)而言,2023 年是一个非常成功的年份,共有 9 种批准,包括 5 种肽和 4 种寡核苷酸。天然产物仍然是药物开发的最佳灵感来源,有 10 种新产品投放市场。今年收获的 3 种药物是聚乙二醇化的,这可能表明聚乙二醇化作为一种方法,在 2013 年 peginesatide 退出市场后,用于增加药物的半衰期。继近年来的趋势,2023 年有两种双特异性药物获得批准。与前几年一样,氟和/或 N-芳杂环存在于大多数药物中。在此,仅根据化学结构对 2023 年 FDA 批准的 55 种新药物进行分析。它们被分类为以下几类:生物制品(抗体、蛋白质/酶);TIDES(肽和寡核苷酸);联合药物;聚乙二醇化药物;天然产物;氮芳杂环;含氟分子;和其他小分子。