ATLANTA, GA — UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for BIMZELX® (bimekizumab-bkzx), an IL-17A and IL-17F inhibitor, for the treatment of adults with moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). In addition, a second sBLA...
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ATLANTA, Georgia — UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, today presented positive efficacy and safety results from the GEMZ phase 3 study investigating adjunctive fenfluramine (FFA) in children and adults with CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) meeting in Atlanta, December 5-9, 2025.1 The trial met its primary endpoint and...
ATLANTA — UCB (Euronext Brussels: UCB), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it will be presenting results from across its portfolio in generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) at the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) annual meeting and the Myasthenia Gravis Association of America Scientific Session taking place...
ATLANTA — UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it will present six abstracts in hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) at the 8th Annual Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances (SHSA) in Phoenix, Arizona. Data and analyses in HS will be presented across two oral presentations and four posters. “The data to...
ATLANTA, Georgia — UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the final analysis of an open-label extension (OLE) study with the objective to describe long-term safety and effectiveness of FINTEPLA (fenfluramine) in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) was published in Epilepsy & Behavior.2 No new or unexpected treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were reported.2 Children and adults...
Chicago, Illinois – The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital will be among the first in the country to offer gene therapy for sickle cell disease in patients 12 years and older, after federal regulators approved two new treatments in December 2023. Thousands of patients with sickle cell disease...
Los Angeles, Calif. – Samara Rahman, 74, considers herself lucky. She gets to take walks on the beach, go swimming and ride her bike — all things that were taken from her when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in November of 2022. Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths...
Los Angeles, Calif. – Scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have built and demonstrated the potential efficacy of a new chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell-based immunotherapy specifically designed to treat patients with cutaneous and rare subtypes of melanoma. CAR T-cell therapy uses genetically engineered versions of a...
FAIRFAX, Va. — A minimally invasive treatment using MRI and transurethral ultrasound instead of surgery or radiation is effective in treating prostate cancer, according to new research to be presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting in Salt Lake City. The traditional treatment options of radiation or...
A long-term study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that the three most common treatments for localized prostate cancer had significant impacts on patients’ quality of life, a finding that could help guide doctors and patients in making treatment decisions. The four-year study, which followed 475 men...