Protalix and Chiesi Plan Q1 2020 Filing For Accelerated FDA Approval

The companies plan to use surrogate endpoint data to win approval to challenge Sanofi and Shire for the Fabry disease market.

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Protalix BioTherapeutics Inc. and Chiesi Farmaceutici SPA plan to file for accelerated approval of Fabry disease drug pegunigalsidase alfa in the first quarter of next year after talks with US Food and Drug Administration found a surrogate path forward.

The partners are testing the drug, also known as PRX-102, in three Phase III trials to establish it as a...

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