NICE backs Skyrizi for severe psoriasis

15 July 2019

British medicines cost-effectiveness watchdog the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a positive Final Appraisal Document (FAD), confirming that Skyrizi (risankizumab) is recommended for the treatment of severe psoriasis in adult patients who have failed conventional systemic therapies.

Risankizumab’s availability on the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales will represent the fastest time from marketing authorization to reimbursement of any biologic treatment for psoriasis, said the drug’s developer AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV). Risankizumab is part of a collaboration with Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim and with AbbVie leading development and commercialization globally.

The European Commission granted Marketing Authorization for risankizumab on April 26, 2019.

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