Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA) announced the U.S. FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation for VGT-1849A, a selective antisense oligonucleotide-based JAK2 inhibitor for the treatment of polycythemia vera, a form of a rare hematologic malignancy that is estimated to affect 1 in 2000 Americans.
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