FDA Grants Priority Review For VEGF Trap-Eye For The Treatment Of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Company's Biologics License Application (BLA) for VEGF Trap-Eye for the treatment of the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). The FDA also granted the Company's request for priority review of its BLA. A Priority Review designation is given to drugs that offer major advances in treatment, or provide a treatment where no adequate therapy exists. Under priority review, the target date for an FDA decision on the VEGF Trap-Eye BLA (Read more...)