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Sanofi produces more Lemtrada data ahead of second FDA approval decision

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

Sanofi subsidiary Genzyme has released interim results from the second year of an extension study for multiple sclerosis drug Lemtrada (alemtuzmab), which show that relapse rates and sustained accumulation of disability remained low among patients who had previously received the drug in Phase III trials.

Sanofi subsidiary Genzyme has released interim results from the second year of an extension study for multiple sclerosis drug Lemtrada (alemtuzmab), which show that relapse rates and sustained accumulation of disability remained low among patients who had previously received the drug in Phase III trials.

The results of the extension study will help substantiate Genzyme's FDA approval re-submission for Lemtrada, which the company filed in...

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