Un­der fire from Shire, Roche grabs the VIP lane for top drug prospect emi­cizum­ab

Fight­ing off a flank at­tack in the courts by at­tor­neys for ri­val Shire, Roche says it was flagged for the FDA’s in­side reg­u­la­to­ry track for emi­cizum­ab (ACE910), a new drug for he­mo­phil­ia A.

The Swiss phar­ma gi­ant says the FDA has now set Feb­ru­ary 23 as its dead­line for a de­ci­sion on this drug, lop­ping four months off the process in recog­ni­tion of its po­ten­tial­ly game-chang­ing sta­tus in the field.

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