Lytenava, from Outlook Therapeutics, is set to become the first ophthalmic formulation of bevacizumab to be approved in the EU, after the European Medicines Agency this week recommended in favor of using the VEGF inhibitor to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
Outlook Turns To Marketing Strategy After Scoring EU First For Ophthalmic Bevacizumab
Outlook Therapeutics’ intravitreally injected Lytenava has won the thumbs up from the European Medicines Agency. The company is assessing both direct commercialization of the product and partnering in Europe on a country-by-country basis.
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