Wave Life Sciences announced that the European Medicines Agency Committee for Orphan Medical Products issued a positive opinion recommending WVE-210201 for designation as an orphan medicinal product for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. To be considered for Orphan Drug Designation in the EU, companies must provide data that demonstrate the plausibility for use of the investigational therapy in the treatment of the disease and establish that the drug has the potential to provide relevant advantages or a major contribution to patient care over existing therapies. The positive opinion issued by COMP is anticipated to be adopted by the European Commission at the end of July 2018. Orphan Drug Designation by the EC provides regulatory and financial incentives for companies to develop and market therapies that treat a life-threatening or chronically debilitating condition affecting no more than five in 10,000 persons in the European Union, and where no satisfactory treatment is available. Among the incentives available to medicines designated as orphan drugs by the EC are ten-year market exclusivity in the EU after product approval, eligibility for conditional marketing authorization, protocol assistance from the EMA at reduced fees during the product development phase and direct access to centralized marketing authorization in the EU. WVE-210201 is currently being studied in an ongoing global, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 1 clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and plasma concentrations of single ascending doses of WVE-210201 administered intravenously in DMD patients with gene mutations amenable to exon 51 skipping. The trial is expected to enroll up to 40 patients, including ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients, between the ages of 5 and 18 years. Safety data from the trial are expected in the third quarter of 2018.
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