On September 29, 2015 Clovis Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLVS) reported two major regulatory milestones for rociletinib, its investigational therapy for the treatment of patients with mutant epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have been previously treated with an EGFR-targeted therapy and have the EGFR T790M mutation (Press release, Clovis Oncology, SEP 29, 2015, View Source;p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=2091515 [SID:1234507613]). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Clovis’s New Drug Application (NDA) for rociletinib and has granted it priority review status with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of March 30, 2016.
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Additionally, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for rociletinib. Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) granted Clovis an accelerated assessment for the drug, which reduces the time limit for CHMP to reach an opinion from 210 days to 150 days. Accelerated assessment is granted in recognition of the likelihood that a therapeutic will be of major public health interest in the EU, given the importance of therapeutic innovation in a patient population that exhibits a high unmet need.
Rociletinib is the company’s novel, oral, targeted covalent (irreversible) mutant-selective inhibitor of EGFR in development for the treatment of NSCLC in patients with initial activating EGFR mutations, as well as the dominant resistance mutation T790M. Data from both the pivotal, single-arm TIGER-X and TIGER-2 clinical trials served as the basis for the U.S. and EU regulatory submissions for the treatment of advanced mutant EGFR T790M-positive lung cancer. Rociletinib was given Breakthrough Therapy designation by the FDA in May 2014.