Another Botox Competitor: Revance Prepares Longer-Lasting RT002 For BLA Submission

A claim that RT002's duration of efficacy surpasses the leading neurotoxin – Allergan's blockbuster Botox – will be put to the test when Revance seeks US FDA approval to treat frown lines in the first half of this year. The company's Botox biosimilar with Mylan also could move forward in 2019.

Clinic of Aesthetic Medicine. Botox / Disport Procedure for men.

CEO Dan Browne insists that Revance Therapeutics Inc.'s technology is the first innovation in neuromodulators in 30 years, providing a longer-lasting botulinum toxin-based injection for aesthetic and therapeutic uses than the four approved products in this category, including Allergan PLC's market-leading blockbuster Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA).

Revance's claim that lead product candidate RT002 (daxibotulinumtoxinA) can beat the three-to-four-month duration of efficacy of existing neurotoxins by two...

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