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AstraZeneca Buys Priority Review Voucher With Two Big Filings On The Horizon

 
• By Jessica Merrill

AstraZeneca paid $95m to Swedish Orphan Biovitrum for the voucher, which it could use to expedite the FDA review of roxadustat or trastuzumab deruxtecan.

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AstraZeneca PLC has its sights set on speeding up the US Food and Drug Administration review of an upcoming new drug filing. The company revealed on 22 August that it paid $95m to buy a priority review voucher from Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB.

An FDA priority review cuts the timeline for reviewing a new drug from 10 months to six months, excluding the two-month filing period, and AstraZeneca has two big US filings targeted in the second half of 2019: roxadustat for anemia

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