Keeping Track Of Breakthroughs: AZ Farxiga, ImmunoGen ADC For Hematologic Cancer, Inventiva NASH Candidate Earn Designation

The latest breakthrough therapy designation news and highlights from the Pink Sheet’s US FDA Performance Tracker.

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The DAPA-CKD study on Farxiga’s was stopped early in March 2020 because of “overwhelming efficacy.” • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration’s recent grants of breakthrough therapy designations stand in very different therapeutic spaces. AstraZeneca PLC’s established antidiabetic Farxiga (dapagliflozin) won its first BTD for treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease, a common condition with more than 4 million diagnosed cases in the US. Inventiva S.A.'s lanifibranor was tapped for treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, which affects 3% to 12% of US adults, according to the US National Institutes of Health

ImmunoGen, Inc.’s antibody-drug conjugate candidate IMGN632, on the other hand, earned a BTD for treatment of relapsed or refractory...

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