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Merck: FDA grants priority review to sNDA for Welireg
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Merck: FDA grants priority review to sNDA for Welireg

Merck (MRK) announced the U.S. FDA has accepted for priority review a supplemental new drug application seeking approval of Welireg, Merck’s oral hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha inhibitor, for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients (12 years and older) with advanced, unresectable, or metastatic pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. The sNDA is based on objective response rate and duration of response data from the Phase 2 LITESPARK-015 trial, which will be presented at an upcoming medical meeting. The FDA has set a Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or target action, date of May 26.

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