EC orphan status for Fovea's RdCVF
Paris, France-based Fovea Pharmaceuticals SA, which last December raised $44.0 million in a series B financing, has announced that its product, recombinant human rod-derived cone viability factor (rh-RdCVF), has been designated as Orphan Medicinal Product by the European Commission. This follows the positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's (EMEA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease leading to progressive loss of vision. Fovea is currently conducting preclinical studies of RdCVF and has demonstrated efficacy in an animal model of the disease.
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