Adial Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has selected Crown CRO, based in Finland, to manage its Phase III trial for AD04 for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD).
AstraZeneca and Merck announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted orphan designation to selumetinib, a MEK 1/2 inhibitor, for the treatment of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for Abeona Therapeutics’s EB-101 gene therapy program for patients with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB).
Spark Therapeutics has earned a $15 million milestone payment from Pfizer for achieving a pre-specified safety and efficacy profile in the ongoing hemophilia B Phase 1/2 trial of SPK-9001.