Bris­tol My­er­s' hope for a third Re­blozyl OK de­layed by three months

Bris­tol My­ers Squibb was sup­posed to find out by this Sun­day if the FDA was OK with a third ap­proval for its Cel­gene-ac­quired, Ac­celeron-part­nered ane­mia drug Re­blozyl.

But “a ma­jor amend­ment” is putting a bump in those plans.

The Big Phar­ma will have to wait an­oth­er three months, pos­si­bly as far out as June 27, to see if the agency will green­light a sup­ple­men­tal nod. Bris­tol My­ers wants Re­blozyl — one of four drugs that the com­pa­ny an­tic­i­pates could even­tu­al­ly rack up $4 bil­lion in rev­enue per year — to al­so be a treat­ment for ane­mia in adults with non-trans­fu­sion-de­pen­dent (NTD) be­ta tha­lassemia.

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