DB­V's peanut al­ler­gy patch is fi­nal­ly un­der FDA re­view; Rit­ter swal­lows bit­ter pill to ex­plore strate­gic al­ter­na­tives

→ DBV Tech­nolo­gies $DB­VT, which with­drew its ap­pli­ca­tion to mar­ket its peanut al­ler­gy patch late last year, es­sen­tial­ly en­abling ri­val Aim­mune $AIMT to leapfrog it, on Fri­day an­nounced that the FDA has ac­cept­ed its lat­est BLA fil­ing. The agency is ex­pect­ed to make its de­ci­sion by Au­gust 5 — but will host an ad­vi­so­ry pan­el meet­ing to dis­cuss the im­munother­a­py.

Rit­ter Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals $RT­TR did its best to make lemon­ade with the lemons it was dealt — by vault­ing its lac­tose in­tol­er­ance ther­a­py to­ward a con­fir­ma­to­ry tri­al, de­spite miss­ing the main goal in the pre­ced­ing Phase II/III study. Last month, the com­pa­ny re­port­ed its ther­a­py, RP-G28, failed not on­ly to se­cure a sta­tis­ti­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment ver­sus place­bo in re­duc­ing lac­tose in­tol­er­ance symp­toms, but pa­tients in the place­bo group ac­tu­al­ly did bet­ter than the drug arm. Now, the LA-based com­pa­ny has ap­point­ed a fi­nan­cial ad­vi­sor to ex­plore strate­gic al­ter­na­tives.

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