Dario Eklund, Santhera Pharmaceuticals CEO

Pen­ny stock forges ahead with an NDA for Duchenne treat­ment, seek­ing pri­or­i­ty re­view

Af­ter set­backs and de­lays, the Swiss biotech San­thera is look­ing to have its treat­ment for Duchenne mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy get past the FDA.

San­thera, along with Rever­a­Gen Bio­Phar­ma, an­nounced it has com­plet­ed the rolling sub­mis­sion for an NDA to US reg­u­la­tors and is seek­ing a pri­or­i­ty re­view for va­morolone to treat Duchenne. San­thera states that the “core” of its NDA is the pos­i­tive da­ta from a Phase IIb tri­al that show the safe­ty and ef­fec­tive­ness of the drug.

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