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...
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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...
NOVATO, Calif. – Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel products for serious rare and ultra-rare genetic diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for UX053, an investigational mRNA therapy being...
NOVATO, Calif. — Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE) today announced data demonstrating treatment with UX111 (ABO-102) AAV gene therapy resulted in rapid and sustained decreased levels of heparan sulfate (HS) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in patients with Sanfilippo syndrome type A (MPS IIIA), and that sustained reduction in CSF HS exposure...
NOVATO, Calif. — Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE) announced new data from the Phase 1/2 study of GTX-102 for the treatment of Angelman syndrome. Patients in Expansion Cohorts A & B treated with a set dose and regimen of GTX-102 showed rapid and clinically meaningful improvement across multiple domains consistent...
NOVATO, Calif. – Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapies for rare and ultra-rare diseases, today announced the successful completion of an End-of-Phase 2 (EOP2) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the DTX301 ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC)...
NOVATO, Calif. — Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE) today reported that the Phase 1/2/3 Cyprus2+ study of its UX701 gene therapy has demonstrated meaningful clinical activity as well as improvements in copper metabolism in Stage 1. Multiple responders have completely tapered off of standard-of-care treatment with responses seen in all...
NOVATO, Calif. — Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. today announced that the European Commission (EC) has extended the approval of Evkeeza® (evinacumab) as an adjunct to diet and other lipid-lowering therapies to treat children aged 5 to 11 years with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Evkeeza is the first angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3) inhibitor...