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Butterfly Skin Therapy Pipeline Primed For Transformation

As Amryt's Oleogel-S10 Gets Priority Review

 
• By Kevin Grogan

No drugs are approved for epidermolysis bullosa and children with so-called butterfly skin are currently treated by cleaning open wounds and bandaging them. This could soon change.

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• Source: Archive

The odds of having an approved therapy for epidermolysis bullosa (EB) by the end of 2021 have improved with the news that US regulators have fast-tracked Amryt Pharma's Oleogel-S10 but gene therapies are also coming through the pipeline that could tackle the underlying cause of the rare genetic disorder that causes skin to be extremely fragile.

First up, Ireland's Amryt, which is listed on the NASDAQ and London's AIM market, has revealed that the US Food...

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