Yahoo Finance Aerie (AERI) Gets Positive CHMP Opinion for Roclanda in EU
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. AERI announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) granted a positive opinion recommending approval of the marketing authorization application (MAA) for Roclanda (netarsudil and latanoprost ophthalmic solution) 0.02%/0.005%. Roclanda is recommended by the EMA for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure in adult patients with primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension for whom monotherapy with a prostaglandin or netarsudil provides insufficient intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction.
The final decision is expected by early 2021 and will be applicable to all European Union member states including Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.
In September 2020, Aerie announced successful interim 90-day top-line data from its six-month phase IIIb study in Europe known as Mercury 3, comparing Roclanda to Ganfort. Mercury 3 was designed as a non-inferiority trial to compare IOP reduction in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. Roclanda met the overall trial objective by demonstrating non-inferiority to Ganfort across nine of nine timepoints over 90 days.
Shares of the company have slumped 46.3% year to date compared with the industry’s decline of 3%.
Roclanda is currently marketed as Rocklatan in the United States. Rocklatan, is a once-daily, quadruple-action, fixed-dose combination of Rhopressa and Xalatan (latanoprost), and is approved to reduce elevated IOP in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
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