INN 79th Executive Summary

During the 79th INN Consultation, 281 INN requests were discussed, including:

• 249 new INN requests, of which 155 were for biological substances

• 27 outstanding requests

• 4 objections

• 1 request of substitution

As a result of these discussions, 263 new names were selected, which are planned to be published in Lists 132 (COVID-19-related requests only) and 133 of proposed INN (p.INN). Ten requests did not fulfil INN criteria (No INN), two had been withdrawn by the applicant and six requests were deferred for future discussion.

Four new stems/substems were selected, ten suffixes were promoted to the pre-stem list and it was decided to review the description of two stems.