TOP NEWS
2024 PCMA Pull for Pompe Fundraiser
The AMDA is excited to announce that the 13th Annual PCMA’s Pull for Pompe will take place on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas! The Pull for Pompe clay shooting event is designed for all ages and ability levels. Please...
OTHER NEWS
PRESS RELEASE Priority access for children during Myozyme supply shortage
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) Committee for Medicinal Products (CHMP) has recommended that infants, children and adolescents be given priority access to Myozyme (alglucosidase alfa), from Genzyme, during the expected supply shortage of the medicine over the...
IPA Statement Regarding the Management of Myozyme Supply
Since the first market approval of Myozyme, the IPA has liaised directly with Genzyme LSD Therapeutics to insist that an adequate inventory of the product was kept to ensure continuous supply to all patients receiving the treatment; whether through their commercial or...
IPA Statement Regarding the Management of Myozyme Supply – Advice To Pompe Patients
Since the first market approval of Myozyme, the IPA has liaised directly with Genzyme LSD Therapeutics to insist that an adequate inventory of the product was kept to ensure continuous supply to all patients receiving the treatment; whether through their commercial or...
Guidance to the Pompe Community on the Management of Myozyme Supply
This guidance is being distributed to all treating physicians worldwide except those in the European Union (EU). Separate guidance will be sent to European healthcare professionals in accordance with the requirements of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA); we expect...
MYOZYME® (2000 L) Supply Update – US Version – January 2009
We would like to take this opportunity to provide an important update to the Pompe Community. Background In the early stages of development of Myozyme® (alglucosidase alfa), Genzyme initiated manufacturing at the 160 liter (L) scale, and has since scaled-up the...
Myozyme Supply Update January 2009
We would like to take this opportunity to provide an important update to the global Pompe Community. Background In the early stages of development of Myozyme® (alglucosidase alfa), Genzyme initiated manufacturing at a small scale, and has since scaled-up the process...
Genzyme Pompe Program Update—November 2008
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed Genzyme that the FDA plans an accelerated approval for alglucosidase alfa produced at the 2000 L bioreactor scale for the treatment of late onset Pompe disease. Prior to approval, the company and the agency first...
Genzyme Pompe Program Update—November 10, 2008
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a meeting of its Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee on October 21, 2008 to discuss Genzyme’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for alglucosidase alfa produced at the 2000 L bioreactor scale to treat...
Amicus Therapeutics Begins Phase 2 Clinical Trial of AT2220 in Pompe Disease
Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule, orally-administered pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of human genetic diseases, today announced that it has initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial of AT2220 (1-deoxynojirimycin HCl),...
Genzyme Pompe Program Update—April 2008
We would like to take this opportunity to provide an important update related to Myozyme (alglucosidase alfa) manufacturing in the United States. The FDA has informed Genzyme of its decision on the application for the larger scale manufacturing process to...
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