Paris, France – The New England Journal of Medicine published results from a positive Phase 2 clinical trial demonstrating frexalimab significantly slowed disease activity in people with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), corresponding to 89% and 79% reduction in new gadolinium-enhancing (GdE) T1 brain lesions at Week 12 in the high-...
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Paris, September 23, 2025. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to SAR446268, Sanofi’s one-time AAV gene therapy for the treatment of non-congenital (juvenile and adult onset) DM1 myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). This designation process aims to facilitate the development and expedite the review...
PARIS, France – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to SAR446523, an IgG1-based Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity-enhanced (ADCC) monoclonal antibody (mAb) targeting G-protein coupled receptor family C group 5 member D (GPRC5D) for the potential treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (R/R...
Paris, France – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to SAR446597, a one-time intravitreal gene therapy for the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA) due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The fast track designation process aims to facilitate the development and expedite the review of...
PARIS, France – Following the positive opinion by the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on June 19, 2025, the European Commission has approved Sarclisa in combination with bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (VRd) for the induction treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) who...
Paris, France – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to venglustat, a novel, investigational oral glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor (GCSi), for the treatment of neurological manifestations of Gaucher disease type 3 (GD3), a rare lysosomal storage disorder. The designation is based on data from the LEAP2MONO...
Paris, France — Positive results from the LEAP2MONO phase 3 study (clinical study identifier: NCT05222906) demonstrated that venglustat met the primary and three out of four key secondary endpoints in adults and pediatric patients (12 years and older) with neurological manifestations of Gaucher disease type 3 (GD3), a rare lysosomal storage...
Paris, France – The European Commission has approved Wayrilz (rilzabrutinib), a novel, oral, reversible, Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, as a new treatment for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in adult patients who are refractory to other treatments. This follows the positive opinion by the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)....
Pratteln, Switzerland – Santhera Pharmaceuticals (SIX: SANN) and ReveraGen Biopharma announce new clinical data of 2.5-year treatment outcome with vamorolone in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). These Phase 2a long-term treatment data demonstrate a maintenance of treatment effect, equivalent to a delay of about two years in decline for...
Pratteln, Switzerland, and Rockville, MD, USA – Santhera Pharmaceuticals (SIX: SANN) and ReveraGen BioPharma, Inc (US: private) announce positive key results from the VISION-DMD study, demonstrating robust efficacy across multiple efficacy endpoints and favorable safety and tolerability of vamorolone in the treatment of patients with DMD. VISION-DMD is a pivotal...