AbbVie receives CHMP positive opinion for Humira for pediatric patients with AU
AbbVie (ABBV) said that the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has granted a positive opinion for #HUMIRA for the treatment of chronic non-infectious anterior uveitis in pediatric patients from two years of age who have had an inadequate response to or are intolerant to conventional therapy, or in whom conventional therapy is inappropriate.
The #CHMP opinion is based on results from the SYCAMORE clinical trial, a randomized controlled study of the clinical effectiveness and safety of HUMIRA combined with methotrexate versus methotrexate plus placebo for the treatment of active JIA-associated uveitis.
It was sponsored by the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and coordinated by the Clinical Trials Research Centre at the University of Liverpool.
The Independent Data Safety and Monitoring Committee recommended unmasking the trial early after 90 randomized patients with active JIA-associated uveitis showed that HUMIRA combined with methotrexate controlled ocular inflammation better and was associated with a significantly lower rate of treatment failure than placebo.
The review of the marketing authorization application is being conducted under the centralized licensing procedure.
A marketing authorization decision is anticipated by September.
If approved, the authorization will be valid in all 28 member states of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
HUMIRA was approved by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of non-infectious intermediate, posterior and panuveitis in adults in June 2016.
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