Speedy review for PharmaMar's Zepsyre

17 February 2020
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The US Food and Drug Administration has awarded Priority Review to a submission from Spanish drugmaker PharmaMar (MC: PHM) and Jazz Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: JAZZ) for lurbinectedin.

Towards the end of 2019, PharmaMar  agreed a deal with Ireland-incorporated Jazz Pharma for lurbinectedin in the USA.

That agreement, worth up to a billion dollars for PharmaMar, was reached shortly after the firm submitted its application to the US regulator, for the treatment of people with relapsed small-cell lung cancer (SCLC).

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