Clinical News

Reblozyl’s long-awaited approval in Europe has finally arrived! Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) & Acceleron Pharma announced today that the European Commission approved Reblozyl (luspatercept) for the treatment of Transfusion-Dependent β-#Thalassaemia (TDT) in adult patients. Reblozyl has the potential to address the ineffective erythropoiesis associated with β-thalassaemia and MDS, decrease patients’ dependence ...

Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to the company’s first-in-class pyruvate kinase-R (PKR) activator Mitapivat for the treatment of patients with NTDT α- and β-thalassaemia. Mitapivat is an investigational, oral, small molecule allosteric activator of wild-type and a variety ...

Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Ferriprox® (deferiprone) twice-a-day tablets for the treatment of patients with transfusional iron overload due to thalassaemia syndromes, when current chelation therapy is inadequate. The new formulation of ...

CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to CTX-001, an investigational, autologous, Gene Editing hematopoietic stem cell therapy, for the treatment of severe Transfusion-Dependent β-Thalassaemia (TDT) and Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). As with the FDA’s breakthrough ...

  On 30 April 2020, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion, recommending the granting of a marketing authorisation for the medicinal product REBLOZYL, intended for the treatment of adults with beta-thalassaemia or transfusion-dependent anaemia associated with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The applicant for this medicinal product is Celgene Europe BV. ...

  As the new coronavirus continues to spread affecting an increasing number of countries around the globe and in response to FDA’s Important Information for Blood Establishments Regarding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak (FDA Communication), AABB has recently developed a useful toolkit with important information about coronavirus and blood donation, in ...

FT-4202, a potential disease-modifying oral treatment for sickle cell disease being developed by Forma Therapeutics, has been given fast track and rare pediatric disease designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A fast track status is meant to accelerate the development and review of the treatment, facilitating discussions with the FDA and enabling the therapy ...

  An investigational gene therapy for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and β-thalassaemia, known as ARU-1801, has been given Orphan Drug Designation an orphan drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a status that helps to advance and support its development. The therapy is expected to increase functioning red blood cells through ...

  Bluebird bio, Inc. announced earlier today the launch  of ZYNTEGLO™ in Germany,  the company’s one-time gene therapy for patients 12 years and older with transfusion-dependent β-thalassaemia (TDT) who do not have a β0/β0 genotype, for whom haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation is appropriate but a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched related ...

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the European Medicines Agency‘ (EMA) committee responsible for human medicines, has recently adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of a marketing authorisation for the medicinal product Deferasirox Accord, by Accord Healthcare S.L.U.   Deferasirox Accord is a generic of Exjade, ...