Interview: Arvelle Aims To Be Major Player In CNS

Epilepsy Drug Cenobamate Filed in Europe

The Swiss biotech's focal-onset seizure therapy, which is licensed from South Korea's SK and is already approved in the US, could have potential in indications beyond epilepsy, Arvelle's CEO tells Scrip.

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With its new anti-epileptic drug cenobamate now under review in Europe, Arvelle Therapeutics GmbH is doing the groundwork for the commercial launch that should turn the Swiss biotech into a fully integrated pharmaceutical company.

Earlier this month, the European Medicines Agency accepted Arvelle's marketing authorization application (MAA) for cenobamate, which is licensed from South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd

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