The FDA has cleared Tango Therapeutics Inc.'s IND application for TNG-462, a next-generation methylthioadenosine-cooperative (MTA) inhibitor of protein arginine methyl transferase 5 (PRMT5) for the treatment of cancers with methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) deletion.
As the FDA has in the past when a court issued an opinion it didn’t agree with, the U.S. agency is trying to limit the fallout from an appellate court ruling in Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Inc. vs. Becerra, which involved the breadth of orphan drug exclusivity, to that case alone.
Lantern Pharma Inc.'s LP-284 has been awarded orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). LP-284 is a novel small-molecule agent that preferentially damages DNA in cancer cells harboring mutations in DNA damage repair pathways.
The FDA has awarded orphan drug designation to Sensorion SA's OTOF-GT, a dual vector AAV gene therapy, for the treatment of otoferlin gene-mediated hearing loss.
The FDA has awarded orphan drug designation to Tenaya Therapeutics Inc.'s gene therapy product candidate, TN-401, for the treatment of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). TN-401 is an adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy being developed for the treatment of genetic ARVC caused by plakophilin-2 (PKP2) gene mutations.
The FDA has awarded orphan drug designation to Canbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s CAN-106, a clinical-stage long-acting recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody targeting C5, for the treatment of myasthenia gravis.
The FDA has awarded orphan drug designation to Eikonoklastes Therapeutics Inc.'s ET-101 program for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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