EMA starts rolling review of AstraZeneca's Evusheld COVID-19 candidate

14 October 2021
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The European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has started a rolling review of Evusheld (also known as AZD7442), a combination of two monoclonal antibodies (tixagevimab and cilgavimab), which is being developed by AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) for the prevention of COVID-19 in adults.

The development comes a week after the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker sought emergency approval for AZD7442 from US Food and Drug Administration.

The CHMP’s decision to start the rolling review is based on preliminary results from clinical studies, which suggest that the medicine may help protect against the disease. EMA has started evaluating data from laboratory and animal studies (non-clinical data).

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