US drugmaker AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) has won approval from the European Commission (EC) for Aquipta (atogepant) for the prophylaxis of migraine in adults who have four or more migraine days per month.
The approval makes Aquipta, which is branded in North America as Qulipta, the first and only once-daily oral calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonist treatment in the European Union for the preventive treatment of both chronic and episodic migraine.
This approval gives further credibility to AbbVie’s stated ambitions to be a leader in the treatment of migraine. Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA) is AbbVie’s foundational, first US Food and Drug Administration-approved preventive treatment for chronic migraine, and Ubrelvy (ubrogepant), an acute treatment for migraine attacks.
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