EU Marketing Decisions For New Drugs Imminent For Sanofi, PTC, Calliditas & Others

The European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee, the CHMP, is expected to decide whether 11 drugs should be recommended for marketing approval during its latest monthly meeting, which started today.

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Companies will soon learn if their drugs will get the thumbs up in the EU • Source: Alamy

The sponsors of 11 medicines should learn this week whether the European Medicines Agency will recommend that their products be granted pan-EU marketing authorization. They include Sanofi for its drug olipudase alfa, for treating the rare, progressive, and potentially life-threatening genetic disease, acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD).

Olipudase alfa, an enzyme replacement therapy for adult and pediatric patients with non-central nervous system manifestations of ASMD, became the world’s first drug to be approved for the condition when it was authorized in Japan in March, under the brand name Xenpozyme. A decision on the US marketing application for the product is expected in early Q3 2022

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