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XTalks
MARCH 28, 2024
Italy-based drugmaker Italfarmaco has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its oral medication Duvyzat (givinostat) for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in patients six years of age and older. Duvyzat received Priority Review, Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease designations from the FDA.
Drug Discovery World
JUNE 1, 2023
According to NCBI, most of the ADCs developed so far are for use in the treatment of cancer, but there is plenty of potential for using ADCs to treat other diseases 1. A Nature publication confirmed that there are currently 12 FDA-approved ADCs on the market, and nine of these secured FDA approval in the past six years 2.
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The Pharma Data
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
FDA Approves Zokinvy (lonafarnib) for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies. Nasdaq:EIGR), focused on the development and commercialization of targeted therapies for serious rare and ultra-rare diseases, today announced that the U.S. PALO ALTO, Calif., ABOUT ZOKINVY (LONAFARNIB).
pharmaphorum
MAY 13, 2021
There are already several drugs on the market to treat Duchenne, notably from Sarepta Therapeutics which has three FDA-approved drugs that use “exon skipping” technology. These allow the body to produce a correct version of the misfolded dystrophin protein that is the root cause of DMD.
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 5, 2022
Now, Pfizer and BioNTech are joining forces to try to grab a slice of the market. Pfizer is paying $225 million upfront to its partner to get the ball rolling on the project, including $75 million in cash and $150 million in equity, offset by $25 million from BioNTech in return for an antigen technology that will be used to develop the shot.
Drug Discovery World
OCTOBER 4, 2022
New York-based Oligomerix is an emerging clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing disease-modifying therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases characterised by aberrant tau protein ranging from rare tauopathies such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) to Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
The Pharma Data
JANUARY 13, 2021
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation for HPN217 for the treatment of multiple myeloma. HPN217, a tri-specific T cell activating recombinant protein construct (TriTAC®) targets B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA), a well-validated antigen expressed on malignant multiple myeloma cells.
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