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argenx Announces FDA Acceptance of BLA Filing for Efgartigimod for the Treatment of Generalized Myasthenia Gravis

Published: 2021-03-02 07:00:00 ET

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argenx Announces FDA Acceptance of BLA Filing for Efgartigimod for the Treatment of Generalized Myasthenia Gravis

If approved, efgartigimod will be the first-and-only approval of an FcRn antagonist
Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date is December 17, 2021
Pre-approval access program opened in U.S. for efgartigimod for eligible people living with gMG

Breda, the Netherlands – March 2, 2021 – argenx (Euronext & Nasdaq: ARGX), a global immunology company committed to improving the lives of people suffering from severe autoimmune diseases and cancers, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Biologics License Application (BLA) for intravenous (IV) efgartigimod, the company’s investigational FcRn antagonist and lead product candidate, for the treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG). The FDA has set a standard 10-month review process with a PDUFA target action date of December 17, 2021.

“This is an important milestone for argenx in our transition to a commercial-stage company and brings us closer to our mission to reach patients living with gMG, a debilitating neuromuscular disease,” said Tim Van Hauwermeiren, Chief Executive Officer of argenx. “We look forward to closely collaborating with the FDA through the BLA review process and to potentially making our first medicine available.”

The BLA included results from the pivotal Phase 3 ADAPT trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of efgartigimod for the treatment of patients with gMG. ADAPT met its primary endpoint defined as percentage of responders on the Myasthenia Gravis Activities of Daily Living (MG-ADL) score among acetylcholine receptor-antibody positive (AChR-Ab+) gMG patients. 67.7% of AChR-Ab+ patients treated with efgartigimod achieved the primary endpoint compared with 29.7% on placebo (p

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