• EMA grants PRIME designation for SMA treatment risdiplam

    • December 18, 2018
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    Roche has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted PRIME (PRIority MEdicines) designation for the company’s investigational oral medicine risdiplam (RG7916) for the treatment of people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

    PRIME designation is granted by the EMA to support data generation and development plans for promising medicines, providing a pathway for accelerated evaluation by the agency, and thus potentially enabling them to reach patients earlier.

    SMA treatment risdiplam, an orally administered, survival motor neuron-2 (SMN2) gene splicing modifier, has shown improvements in motor function in people with SMA Types 1, 2 and 3. An increasing body of clinical evidence suggests that SMA is a multisystem disorder, and the loss of SMN protein may affect many tissues and cells beyond the central nervous system. Risdiplam is systemically distributed and designed to durably increase SMN protein levels in the central nervous system and throughout the body.

    Roche leads the clinical development of SMA treatment risdiplam as part of a collaboration with the SMA Foundation and PTC Therapeutics.

    SMA is a severe, inherited, progressive neuromuscular disease that causes devastating muscle atrophy and disease-related complications. It is the most common genetic cause of infant mortality and one of the most common rare diseases, affecting approximately one in 11,000 babies. SMA leads to the progressive loss of nerve cells in the spinal cord that control muscle movement. Depending on the type of SMA, an individual’s physical strength and their ability to walk, eat or breathe can be significantly diminished or lost.

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