Less than a week before Ipsen's palovarotene was due to go in front of an FDA advisory committee, the meeting has been called off following a request by the regulator for more data.
After regulatory hold-ups in the US and Europe, Ipsen has claimed a confidence-boosting approval in Canada for palovarotene, a rare disease therapy acquired via its $1.3 billion takeover of
Drug discovery is usually a goal-driven and iterative process, as researchers look for innovative new routes to target particular diseases and study those diseases in afflicted patients to learn ho