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Europe's Biotechs Gathering Steam With Filgotinib Filing

 
• By John Davis

Galapagos is another step closer to commercializing its products with its lead candidate, filgotinib, now under the gaze of EU regulators.

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Every so often, one of Europe’s biotechs finds itself on the brink of becoming a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company, an event that this time around features Galapagos NV.

Galapagos and its US partner, Gilead Sciences Inc., announced on 15 August that the marketing submission for their oral selective JAK1 inhibitor, filgotinib, is now under evaluation by European regulators, having been validated by the European Medicines Agency

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