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Adalvo announces successful DCP closure for Icatibant

Business
28 September 2021

Adalvo is pleased to announce the successful closure on our DCP procedure for our Icatibant development, a complex injectable peptide product, forming part of our high-value product portfolio offering to our partners.

Icatibant is an equivalent and more affordable version of Firazyr (Takeda/Shire) that will now be made more accessible to patients world-wide. The product is used to treat a serious orphan disease, acute attacks of hereditary angioedema, that affects between 1 in 10,000 and 1 in 50,000 people. The brand sold around $330mio globally in 2020, according to IQVIA.

The development of this product was done in close collaboration with our strategic partner AmbioPharm, who are a global peptide manufacturer with one of the largest worldwide capacities.

Icatibant is truly a landmark product and this DCP registration procedure, which was submitted within almost all the EU region, proves our ability to bring complex high-value products to the market.

With this achievement we are among the first companies to get approval in all our major markets.