Santhera gains global rights to vamorolone

2 September 2020

A new agreement between Santhera Pharmaceuticals (SIX: SANN) and fellow Swiss firm Idorsia (SIX: IDIA), plus USA-based ReveraGen BioPharma, will make Santhera a direct license holder of vamorolone.

Vamorolone is a first-in-class synthetic steroid, which binds to the same receptors as corticosteroids. Researchers believe it has the potential to offer similar efficacy as the current standard of care, but with a more favorable safety profile.

ReveraGen has been developing the candidate as an option for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), releasing positive data from a six-month Phase IIa-extension study in late 2019.

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