Orphazyme's hour of reckoning approaches: "Its existence is threatened if it gets a clear no"

The US FDA will present its verdict on Orphazyme's drug candidate arimoclomol for treating NPC on June 17 at latest. According to an analyst and a former investor, the outcome is crucial to the Danish biotech firm.
Photo: Orphazyme/PR
Photo: Orphazyme/PR
BY CHRISTOPHER DUE KARLSSON, TRANSLATED BY NIELSINE NIELSEN AND CATHERINE BRETT

Orphazyme's fate as a biotech company may be at stake when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decides whether arimoclomol can be approved as a treatment for the rare metabolic disorder Niemann-Pick type C (NPC), says Danske Market's Senior Analyst Thomas Bowers.

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