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PARIS – GenSight Biologics (Paris:SIGHT) (Euronext: SIGHT, ISIN: FR0013183985, PEA-PME eligible), a biopharma company focused on developing and commercializing innovative gene therapies for retinal neurodegenerative diseases and central nervous system disorders, today announced that its gene therapy LUMEVOQ® has been granted Promising Innovative Medicine (PIM) designation by the UK’s Medicines and...
The son of Vitaliy Svichynskyi and Maria Svichynska was nearly two months old when he suddenly started to lose the ability to move. The family soon learned their baby boy Dmytro was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1, the most severe type of the rare genetic disorder found in...
Ultimovacs has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) for the company’s universal cancer vaccine UV1 for the treatment of stage IIB – IV melanoma. UV1, as an add-on therapy to checkpoint inhibitors ipilimumab and nivolumab, is currently being studied as a first-line...
Ultomiris (ravulizumab) has been recommended for marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of adult patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) who are anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody positive (Ab+). If authorised, Ultomiris would be the first and only approved long-acting C5 complement inhibitor for the treatment of...
WILMINGTON, Del. — ULTOMIRIS® (ravulizumab-cwvz) has been approved in the United States as the first and only long-acting C5 complement inhibitor for the treatment of adult patients with anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody-positive (Ab+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). The approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was based on...
  NOVATO, Calif., VANCOUVER, British Columbia and LONDON, England — Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE) and Mereo BioPharma Group plc (NASDAQ: MREO) today announced interim data from the Phase 2 portion of the Phase 2/3 Orbit study demonstrating that treatment with setrusumab (UX143) significantly reduced incidence of fractures in patients...
NOVATO, Calif. — Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. today announced that all patients have been dosed with UX701 across the three dose-escalation cohorts in Stage 1 of its pivotal Phase 1/2/3 Cyprus2+ study. The company’s investigational AAV9 gene therapy is designed to deliver stable expression of the ATP7B copper transporter following a...
NOVATO, Calif. — Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE) today announced that all patients have been enrolled across the Phase 3 Orbit and Cosmic studies evaluating setrusumab (UX143) in pediatric and young adult patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The pivotal Phase 3 portion of the Orbit study has randomized 158 patients ages...