Roche readies a hunt for marketing OK on hemophilia blockbuster hopeful emicizumab after PhIII success
The next big thing on Roche’s list of would-be blockbusters—the hemophilia A drug emicizumab (or ACE910)—came through in a Phase III study, setting up a quick lob to regulators around the world.
Long one of Roche’s top prospects, as laid out by pharma chief Daniel O’Day, Genentech researchers say that the drug hit the primary as well as all the secondary endpoints in their late-stage test. The big goal was a statistically significant drop in the number of bleeds among patients with inhibitors to factor VIII. And one of the secondaries was a reduction in bleeds recorded in an “intra-patient comparison in people who had received prior bypassing agent prophylaxis treatment.”
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