The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s Lupkynis (voclosporin) in combination with a background immunosuppressive therapy regimen to treat adult patients with active lupus nephritis.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted the filing of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s New Drug Application (NDA) for voclosporin as a potential treatment for lupus nephritis, a serious inflammation of the kidneys caused by the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus.