FDA takes a pass on peg­valiase pan­el; Flex­ion ter­mi­nates an old As­traZeneca pact

Bio­Marin says that the FDA is in­di­cat­ing that it won’t be hold­ing a pan­el re­view for peg­valiase as a new treat­ment for phenylke­tonuria (PKU). That is like­ly to some­what im­prove its odds of suc­cess, with a pri­or­i­ty re­view and a PDU­FA date of Feb­ru­ary 28, 2018.

Flex­ion Ther­a­peu­tics has sent a no­tice to As­traZeneca ter­mi­nat­ing their deal on FX005’s sus­tained-re­lease p38 MAP, or mi­to­gen-ac­ti­vat­ed pro­tein, ki­nase in­hibitor de­vel­op­ment pro­gram. Flex­ion has dumped the drug from its pipeline.

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