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AbbVie (ABBV) Announces Receipt of FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Veliparib as NSCLC Treatment

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AbbVie Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Investigational Medicine Veliparib for the Treatment of Advanced Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

November 4, 2016 1:34 PM EDT

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to veliparib, an oral poly (adenosine diphosphate [ADP]-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, being investigated in combination with chemotherapies, such as carboplatin and paclitaxel, or radiation for the treatment of advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

PARP is a naturally-occurring enzyme in the body that repairs damage to DNA in cells. While this repair is a useful process to... More