Akari Therapeutcis (AKTX) Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Coversin as PNH Treatment
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Akari Therapeutics Announces Receipt of Orphan Drug Designation for Coversin from the U.S. FDA for Treatment of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
September 12, 2016 7:15 AM EDTNEW YORK and LONDON, Sept. 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akari Therapeutics (NASDAQ: AKTX), an emerging growth, development-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted to Akari an Orphan Drug Designation for recombinant protein inhibitor of complement factor 5 for the treatment of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH). Coversin, Akaris lead clinical product, which falls within the Orphan Drug Designation, is a second-generation complement inhibitor that acts on complement component-C5, preventing release of C5a and formation of C5b-9 (also known as the membrane attack complex or MAC).
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