Protagonist Announces Plans to Initiate a Global Phase 3 Study for Rusfertide in Polycythemia Vera Following Interactions with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency
Protagonist has also received written comments from the European Medicines Agency ("EMA") supportive of the Company's pivotal clinical development plan in PV.
- Protagonist has also received written comments from the European Medicines Agency ("EMA") supportive of the Company's pivotal clinical development plan in PV.
- Based on the feedback from the FDA and EMA, Protagonist intends to initiate a global Phase 3 clinical trial of rusfertide in PV.
- Frequency of phlebotomies, as well as symptom improvement as measured by MPN-TSS criteria, will be among the important secondary endpoints in the study.
- Importantly, the Phase 3 study will have endpoints and inclusion/exclusion criteria similar to those in the ongoing Phase 2 study.