KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (STO: SOBI) today announced Phase 1/2a trial data showing that the companies’ long-lasting fully-recombinant factor VIII Fc fusion protein (rFVIIIFc) was well tolerated and demonstrated an approximately 1.7-fold increase in half-life compared with Advate® (antihemophilic factor recombinant, plasma/albumin-free method, rFVIII), a commercially-available factor VIII product, in 16 previously-treated patients with severe hemophilia A. The findings, which were seen consistently across all patients and dose levels, are being presented today at the XXIIIrd Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis in Kyoto, Japan.
