EMA Rejects Bevacizumab Drug For Use In Wet AMD

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Nearly a year and a half after it was filed for approval, the EU regulator has rejected a mystery injectable product containing the monoclonal antibody bevacizumab for ophthalmic use.

Macular degeneration - loss of the central field of vision.
Macular degeneration can seriously impair vision • Source: Alamy

The European Medicines Agency has recommended against EU marketing approval for Ipique (bevacizumab), which would have been the first drug containing the antibody to be authorized for use in neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

The EMA today announced that its human drugs committee, the CHMP, issued a negative opinion on the product on 11 November during its monthly meeting

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