FDA grants Sanofi's blockbuster priority review in a new indication

Sanofi’s drug Dupixent has now received the US health authority’s Breakthrough Therapy, Orphan Drug and Priority Review designations, the latter of which in a new indication for people with inflamed esophagi due to allergies.
Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by CHRISTIAN BUNDGAARD, translated by daniel pedersen

French Sanofi has been granted Priority Review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Dupixent (dupilumab) in the indication for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), an inflammatory disease of the esophagus, the company has announced in a press release.

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