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Apellis To Try Again After EMA Rejects Geographic Atrophy Drug

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

The delayed decision from the CHMP is another rejection for Syfovre but Apellis still hopes the regulator may be convinced in a second review later this year.

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Apellis has received the bad news it has been expecting for some time as the European Medicines Agency’s expert committee has given a thumbs down to its geographic atrophy treatment Syfovre.

The ruling adds to Apellis’ difficulties with Syfovre (pegcetacoplan) in the US market, where sales of the complement C3 cyclic...

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