BeiGene's Brukinsa Drug Recommended for EU Authorization
19 September 2022 - 10:30PM
Dow Jones News
By Sabela Ojea
BeiGene Ltd. said Monday that a European Medicines Agency
committee has recommended granting marketing authorization for its
Brukinsa drug, aimed at treating adults diagnosed with a marginal
zone lymphoma.
The biotechnology company said the European Union's Committee
for Medicinal Products for Human Use has a positive opinion on the
Brukinsa inhibitor.
"With this positive opinion, we are one step closer to bringing
forward a chemotherapy-free treatment option for this rare blood
cancer," said Mehrdad Mobasher, BeiGene's chief medical officer of
hematology.
Marginal zone lymphoma is a group of ultra-rare, slow growing
B-cell malignancies that begin in the marginal zones of lymph
tissue. BeiGene said the incidence rate is estimated to range
between 20 million and 30 per million a year.
Write to Sabela Ojea at sabela.ojea@wsj.com; @sabelaojeaguix
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