Advicenne Hastens EU Approval For Sibnayal By Withdrawing Orphan Designation

 Advicenne withdrew its orphan drug designation application for Sibnayal over concerns that a key study was not designed to compare the product with the standard of care.

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Withdrawing orphan drug designation application for Sibnayal offered a quicker road to patients • Source: Alamy

The European Commission has approved Advicenne’s Sibnayal for the orphan disease distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA). The approval came after the company voluntarily withdrew the orphan drug designation (ODD) it had received in June 2017 during its development of the drug after the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) requested more data.

The company told the Pink Sheet that withdrawing the ODD would enable it to make Sibnayal, also known as ADV7103,...

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