Sarepta completes NDA submission for Casimersen
Sarepta today announced they have completed the submission of a rolling New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking accelerated approval for casimersen (SRP-4045). Casimersen is designed for the treatment of exon 45 amenable patients, approximately eight percent of patients with Duchenne.
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The completion of the rolling submission includes data from the casimersen arm of the ESSENCE study, a global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study evaluating efficacy and safety in patients amenable to skipping exons 45 and 53.
An interim analysis from ESSENCE demonstrated a statistically significant increase in dystrophin production as measured by western blot in patients who received casimersen compared to baseline and placebo. The study is ongoing, and remains blinded to collect additional efficacy and safety data. If the casimersen NDA is accepted and granted accelerated approval, the completed ESSENCE study will serve as a post-marketing confirmatory study.
About Casimersen
- Casimersen is a phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO), is engineered to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who have genetic mutations that are amenable to skipping exon 45 of the Duchenne gene.
- It is the third exon-skipping medicine using Sarepta’s proprietary PMO RNA-based platform
