Vifor Pharma and partner Travere Therapeutics on Friday won an endorsement for approval from the European Union’s drug regulator for their drug Filspari, part of an industry race to treat a rare, serious kidney condition known as IgAN.
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California-based Vera Therapeutics unveiled results Tuesday from the Phase IIb ORIGIN trial showing its immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) candidate atacicept met the primary endpoint of reduced proteinuria.
Shares of Angion Biomedica Corp. are falling fast after the company announced it had discontinued a mid-stage study of an oral tyrone kinase inhibitor in patients with primary proteinuric kidney diseases due to safety reasons. And Novo Nordisk also hit a wall, reporting that its diabetes drug Ozempic (semaglutide) failed to inprove liver fibrosis in NASH-related cirrhosis.
Almost a month ahead of schedule, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Amvuttra (vutrisiran) for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR) with polyneuropathy in adults.
