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First EU PRIME Designations Go To Biogen, ChemoCentryx, Kite, NovImmune

 
• By Ian Schofield

The first four drugs European Medicines Agency selects for its new priority review program include Biogen's Alzheimer's disease treatment aducanumab. Fourteen applicants did not garner PRIME status.

Biogen's aducanumab for early Alzheimer's disease is one of the first four drugs to be accepted into the European Medicines Agency's PRIME (priority medicines) scheme, which offers early, proactive and enhanced support for the development of products that address unmet medical needs, as well as the possibility of accelerated assessment.

The other three products now eligible for EMA support under PRIME are ChemoCentryx Inc.'s CCX168 for valvulitis, Kite Pharma Inc.'s KTE-C19 for lymphoma, and NovImmune SA's NI-0501...

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