Ophthalmic Bevacizumab & CRISPR-Based Gene Therapy Among Latest EU Filings

Investigational drugs from Outlook Therapeutics and Vertex/CRISPR could become first-of-their-kind products if they win marketing approval.

CRISPR/Cas9 allows for precise, directed changes to genomic DNA • Source: Shutterstock

The European Medicines Agency has begun reviewing Outlook Therapeutics’s EU marketing authorization application (MAA) for what could become the first on-label ophthalmic formulation of bevacizumab (ONS-5010) to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).

In addition, the agency has accepted for review MAAs for exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), Vertex Pharmaceuticals/CRISPR Therapeutics’ CRISPR/Cas9 gene edited therapy for sickle cell disease or transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, and lecanemab,

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