Purpose Pharma International AB

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Amgen and Jazz Pharmaceuticals are among companies that received a positive opinion from European regulators for drugs that are already in the US market. The European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee (CHMP) said on Friday that it recommended the European Commission to give the go-ahead for six new medicines and 10 label expansions. Among the six new medicines was Vertex’s cystic fibrosis oral therapy called Alyftrek, which was approved by the FDA last December for the same indication. Amgen similarly got a CHMP nod for Tepezza in moderate to severe Thyroid Eye Disease. Tepezza was approved by the FDA for that condition in January 2020. Jazz also secured a positive opinion for its bile duct cancer antibody Ziihera, which was approved by the FDA in November last year. On Friday, the committee said it would re-examine its earlier decision to reject Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla. It also recommends PTC Therapeutics’ drug, dubbed Sephience, to be used to treat hyperphenylalaninemia in patients with the metabolic disease phenylketonuria. The other CHMP medicine recommendations are for Italfarmaco’s therapy Duvyzat for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Purpose Pharma’s Attrogy for ATTR amyloidosis. As for the 10 label expansions, the committee recommended extending two of Bayer’s drugs, including a new dose of Adempas, which is approved for pulmonary arterial hypertension, as well as extending the label for the hemophilia A drug called Jivi for children aged seven and above. Other label recommendations: The regulators also recommended the EC approve nine new biosimilar products, eight of which were biosimilars to Amgen’s denosumab, which is a treatment for rare bone disease.