Pharmaceutical companies have finally begun to use England’s £340m ($425m) Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF), more than a year after the scheme was first launched. Alexion’s Kanuma (sebelipase alfa) is the most recent of three drugs to be accepted for National Health Service funding via the IMF.
England’s Innovative Medicines Fund Picks Up Pace As Alexion’s Kanuma Gets Green Light
Alexion has secured funding for its Wolman disease drug Kanuma via England’s Innovative Medicines Fund after several years of “constructive collaboration” with the country’s health technology assessment body NICE and the National Health Service.
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