Lux Biosciences' Luveniq Receives FDA Priority Review
A Priority Review designation is given to drugs that offer major advances in treatment, or provide a treatment where no adequate therapy exists. A Priority Review means that the time it takes FDA to review a new drug application is reduced; the goal for completing a Priority Review is six months.
“We are very pleased that Luveniq is now under active regulatory consideration in both the United States and Europe, and that the FDA is providing an expedited review in recognition of the potential of this experimental drug and high need for new therapies,” said Eddy Anglade, M.D., Lux Biosciences’ Chief Medical Officer.
About LUVENIQ™
Luveniq™ (oral voclosporin) is the oral form of a next-generation calcineurin inhibitor, voclosporin. Like other molecules of this class, the compound reversibly inhibits immunocompetent lymphocytes, particularly T-lymphocytes, and it also inhibits lymphokine production and release. Lux Biosciences has exclusive worldwide rights to voclosporin for all ophthalmic indications and is cooperating with the team at Isotechnika Pharma who discovered the molecule.
About Lux Biosciences
Lux Biosciences, Inc. is a privately held biotechnology company focused on the treatment of ophthalmic diseases. For more information on Lux Biosciences, please visit the company’s website at http://www.luxbio.com.
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