Intercept Withdraws EU NASH Drug Filing But May Retry

New data that is being collected to support a US resubmission for Intercept’s obeticholic acid might also be used to support a resubmission to the European Medicines Agency.

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Intercept is collecting more data to support its drug for liver fibrosis due to NASH • Source: Alamy

Intercept Pharmaceuticals is withdrawing its EU marketing authorization application (MAA) for obeticholic acid (OCA), an investigational treatment for liver fibrosis due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) that also suffered a setback in the US but which the company hopes to resubmit in that jurisdiction soon.

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