JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing Teva’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for XM02, a granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) for the reduction in the duration of severe neutropenia and the incidence of febrile neutropenia in patients treated with established myelosuppressive chemotherapy for cancer. Teva's BLA for XM02 was submitted to the FDA on Nov. 30, 2009. The proposed trade name for XM02 is NEUTROVAL™.
