EMA Reviewing Two MAb Combinations For COVID-19

Products Being Assessed Under Special Procedure For EU Member States

The European Medicines Agency's special review process that was used to help EU member states issue emergency use approvals for dexamethasone in COVID-19 patients is now being applied to two antibody combinations from Regeneron/Roche and Lilly.

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More products for use in COVID-19 are being assessed in Europe • Source: Shutterstock

The European Medicines Agency is carrying out a review of two monoclonal antibody combinations with potential in treating COVID-19, under a special procedure that assists the EU member states in making medicinal products available in emergency situations before they have been formally approved.

The two combinations in question are casirivimab/imdevimab and bamlanivimab/etesevimab. The first is being co-developed as REGN-COV2 by 

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