EU Approval Decision Delay For BMS’s Ozanimod

Company Needed More Time To Answer Questions On New MS Product

 
• By Maureen Kenny

BMS should find out mid-2020 whether its new MS drug will be approved in the EU.

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Companies sometime ask for extra time to address regulators' questions • Source: Shutterstock

Bristol-Myers Squibb has pushed back by one or two months its estimate of when it expects to hear whether ozanimod, the company’s potential new treatment for relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis, is likely to secure marketing approval in the EU. 

A regulatory decision by the European Medicines Agency is expected mid-2020. If the EMA recommends in favor of approval, formal...

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