Orphazyme cuts guidance following FDA setback

Friday's disappointing rejection letter from the US FDA is affecting Orphazyme's guidance for 2021. Now, the biotech firm forecasts an operating deficit of DKK 670-700m, up from DKK 100-150m.
Photo: Spar Nord/PR
Photo: Spar Nord/PR
BY CHRISTOPHER DUE KARLSSON, TRANSLATED BY NIELSINE NIELSEN

It's a hard blow for Orphazyme that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected the biotech firm's main candidate arimoclomol for the treatment of the metabolic disease Niemann-Pick type C (NPC).

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