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Calliditas Spies Chinese Market As Tarpeyo Continues Upwards Sales Curve

IgAN Therapy Advancing In US

 
• By Kevin Grogan

The Swedish biotech’s successful launch in the US of Tarpeyo for immunoglobulin A nephropathy is progressing well and a Chinese approval is on the horizon as partner Everest’s application is accepted by regulators.

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Calliditas Therapeutics AB is building on the early commercial success of Tarpeyo in the US and getting very excited about the potential of the immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) treatment in China, where the product has just been filed.

Tarpeyo, an oral formulation designed to release the steroid budesonide into the gut, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last December for IgAN, a rare kidney disease, under the agency's accelerated approval program. Calliditas chose to sell the drug, its first and the first licensed therapy for IgAN, without a partner and the launch across the Atlantic is progressing well, according to CEO Renée Aguiar-Lucander

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