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EMA Ends Year With Set of Straight Noes For PRIME Applicants

 
• By Maureen Kenny

The European Medicines Agency rejected all seven eligibility requests for its priority medicines scheme that it reviewed in December.

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The PRIME scheme aims to get drugs out of the lab and on to the market faster • Source: Shutterstock

There was end-of-year disappointment for companies looking to get their early-stage products accepted on to the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines (PRIME) scheme. At its December meeting, the agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use rejected all seven of the requests for eligibility to the voluntary scheme that it reviewed.

The number of requests for access to PRIME granted since the scheme was launched in March 2016 is unchanged from...

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