Setback for Graspa for acute lymphoblastic leukemia

15 November 2016

The French company developing ‘tumor starvation’ treatments for acute leukemia and other oncology indications with unmet medical needs, saw its shares plunge 23.8% to 13.31 euros this morning after it announced a negative development for its lead product candidate.

French biotech firm Erytech Pharma (Euronext Paris: ERYP) said it has decided to withdraw the current European Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for Graspa (eryaspase) for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

The company determined that the time allowed in the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) procedure was not sufficient to provide the additional data requested in the CHMP’s Day 180 List of Outstanding Issues (LOI).

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