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Apellis Set For Blockbuster Success With Syfovre, The First Approved Geographic Atrophy Drug

$2,190 Per Vial Price In Line With VEGF-Based Eye Therapies

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

Around five million people worldwide suffer from geographic atrophy, and Apellis’s drug will be the first to offer hope of slowing the disease’s progress, as it reaches the US market at a price comparable to the VEGF inhibitors.

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Apellis Pharmaceuticals has achieved a milestone with the US approval of Syfovre, the first treatment for geographic atrophy, and looks set to lead a new multi-billion-dollar market for the ophthalmic disease.

Geographic atrophy (GA) is a leading cause of age-related blindness, affecting around one million people in the US and five million worldwide. The condition is an advanced form of dry...

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