EUSA Pharma

EUSA Pharma | March 27, 2017

EUSA Pharma (EUSA), a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on oncology and oncology supportive care, and Apeiron Biologics today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of dinutuximab beta for use in the treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma1....

EUSA Pharma | August 29, 2017

The European Commission has licensed EUSA Pharma’s Fotivda for the management of adult patients with advanced kidney cancer across the European Union as well as Norway and Iceland. Fotivda (tivozanib) is indicated for the first line treatment of adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and for those who are VEGFR and mTOR pathway inhibitor-naïve following disease progression after one prior treatment with cytokine therapy....

Pharmaphorum Media Limited | January 10, 2019

UK-based EUSA Pharma has bought worldwide rights to Janssen’s rare diseases drug Sylvant (siltuximab) for $115 million. EUSA already markets two oncology drugs and is seeking to build its presence in the rare disease market with Sylvant, which has been approved in the US since 2014 to treat multicentric Castleman’s disease, caused by an abnormal overgrowth of cells of the lymph system. Although not classified as cancer, the disease acts very much like lymphoma and Sylvant is the only...

Pharmacy Business | January 14, 2020

The government on Monday announced a collaboration with Novartis to launch a clinical trial for ‘yet to be approved’ drug inclisiran. The drug could benefit thousands of patients at risk of heart disease in coming years. The ground-breaking collaboration includes Novartis, NHS England and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Oxford University. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) expects this to position the UK as a world-leading destination to develop cut...