Sobi wins new rare disease indication for IL-1 blocker in Europe

11 April 2018

Stockholm’s Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (STO: SOBI) has extended the label for Kineret (anakinra) in the European Union, to include the treatment of the rare auto-inflammatory condition Still’s disease.

Kineret is a recombinant interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, first cleared for use in the USA in 2001, and in Europe the year after, as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

The biologic will now also be available as monotherapy or in combination with other anti-inflammatory drugs and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) to the some 25,000 children and adults with Still’s disease in Europe.

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