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EMA PRIME Scheme: Two New Entries, 10 Rejections & One Withdrawal

 
• By Neena Brizmohun

A total of 141 products have made it onto the European Medicines Agency’s PRIME (priority medicines) scheme since 2016 and over 370 applications have been denied entry.

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The PRIME scheme is designed to help developers of medicines for unmet medical needs (Shutterstock)

NX-5948, Nurix Therapeutics’ treatment for relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and Ga68-PentixaFor, Pentixapharm’s radiodiagnostic for primary aldosteronism, are the latest investigational products to secure a place on PRIME, the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines scheme for drugs addressing unmet medical needs.

Key Takeaways
  • NX-5948 and Ga68-PentixaFor are the latest entries on the PRIME scheme, bringing to 141 the total number of products to secure a place on the scheme.

NX-5948 was among nine applications for a place on PRIME that the EMA’s human medicines committee, the CHMP, reviewed at...

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