Epizyme hits the ground run­ning with sec­ond — and cru­cial — OK for Tazverik, in fol­lic­u­lar lym­phoma

When Epizyme scored the first-ever ap­proval for tazeme­to­stat, in ep­ithe­lioid sar­co­ma, ex­ecs made it clear it was on­ly an ap­pe­tiz­er, some­thing to whet the ap­petites of reg­u­la­tors, in­vestors and physi­cians to the po­ten­tial of the methyl­trans­ferase in­hibitor. Five months lat­er, they are ready to serve the main course.

The biotech got all the help from the FDA to ex­pand the la­bel for Tazverik, go­ing through pri­or­i­ty re­view to land an ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval in two in­di­ca­tions of fol­lic­u­lar lym­phoma:

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