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Octapharma shares new data at ISTH 2022 in its mission to meet the challenges faced by people with bleeding disorders

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Monday, July 4, 2022

The data will be featured in eleven poster presentations and two Supported Symposia during this major international meeting.

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  • The data will be featured in eleven poster presentations and two Supported Symposia during this major international meeting.
  • Octapharma is proud to be a Gold Supporter of the ISTH 2022 Congress.
  • Safety and pharmacokinetics of a subcutaneous recombinant FVIII (OCTA101) in adult patients with severe haemophilia A. Presenting Author: Sigurd Knaub
    PB0559.
  • "Despite advances in the field, managing emergency bleeding and bleeding disorders still comes with considerable challenges.

BioMarin Receives Positive CHMP Opinion in Europe for Valoctocogene Roxaparvovec Gene Therapy to Treat Adults with Severe Hemophilia A

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Friday, June 24, 2022

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion recommending conditional marketing authorization (CMA) for its investigational gene therapy, valoctocogene roxaparvovec, for adults with severe hemophilia A. A final approval decision, typically consistent with the CHMP recommendation, is expected from the European Commission in Q3 2022.

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    SAN RAFAEL, Calif., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion recommending conditional marketing authorization (CMA) for its investigational gene therapy, valoctocogene roxaparvovec, for adults with severe hemophilia A.
  • Roctavian is the first gene therapy to be recommended for approval in Europe for hemophilia A.
  • BioMarin has multiple clinical studies underway in its comprehensive gene therapy program for the treatment of hemophilia A.
  • Individuals with the most severe form of hemophilia A make up approximately 50 percent of the hemophilia A population.

Press Release: FDA grants efanesoctocog alfa Breakthrough Therapy designation for hemophilia A

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Breakthrough Therapy designation is designed to expedite the development and review of drugs in the US that target serious or life-threatening conditions.

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  • Breakthrough Therapy designation is designed to expedite the development and review of drugs in the US that target serious or life-threatening conditions.
  • The Breakthrough Therapy designation highlights efanesoctocog alfas potential to transform treatment for people with hemophilia A by providing higher protection for longer duration.
  • This designation supports the innovation of efanesoctocog alfa and acknowledges its potential to fulfill an unmet medical need for people living with hemophilia A.
  • The FDA granted efanesoctocog alfa Orphan Drug designation in August 2017 and Fast Track designation in February 2021.

Global Blood Plasma Derivatives Market Report 2022: A $40.5 Billion Market in 2021 - Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecasts to 2027 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

The "Blood Plasma Derivatives Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "Blood Plasma Derivatives Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The global blood plasma derivatives market reached a value of US$ 40.5 billion in 2021.
  • How has the global blood plasma derivatives market performed so far and how will it perform in the coming years?
  • What is the structure of the global blood plasma derivatives market and who are the key players?

$89.76 Billion Blood Plasma Derivatives Markets - Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecasts, 2021-2030 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

The "Blood Plasma Derivatives Market by Product Type, Application, and End User: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Blood Plasma Derivatives Market by Product Type, Application, and End User: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The factors that drive the growth of the blood plasma derivatives market include increase in prevalence of life-threatening diseases such as immunodeficiency diseases & hemophilia, rise in awareness toward blood & plasma donation, and growth in adoption of blood plasma derivatives products.
  • Moreover, other factors that are responsible for the growth of the plasma derived derivatives are increase in awareness of blood & plasma donation, rise in geriatric population, & higher adoption of the blood plasma derivative products.
  • Moreover, surge in prevalence of geriatric population, who are more vulnerable to chronic disease escalate the blood plasma derivatives market growth.

Global Coagulation Testing Lab and POC Market (2022 to 2026) - Analysis of Current and Emerging Technologies and Their Potential Market Applications - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The "2022-2026 Global Coagulation Testing Lab and POC Market: US, Europe, Japan--Supplier Sales and Shares, Volume and Sales Segment Forecasts, Competitive Strategies, Innovative Technologies, Instrumentation Review" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "2022-2026 Global Coagulation Testing Lab and POC Market: US, Europe, Japan--Supplier Sales and Shares, Volume and Sales Segment Forecasts, Competitive Strategies, Innovative Technologies, Instrumentation Review" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • This comprehensive seven-country report is designed to help current suppliers and potential market entrants identify and evaluate business opportunities emerging in the global coagulation testing market during the next five years.
  • New specific and sensitive markers of coagulation will be increasingly used on automated instrumentation.
  • Coagulation testing will also become more standardized, offering opportunities for quality control products and services.

DGAP-News: Biotest AG: Biotest exceeds sales guidance in fiscal year 2021

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Friday, April 1, 2022

In fiscal year 2021, the Biotest Group generated revenues of 515.6 million, compared to 484.2 million in the previous year.

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  • In fiscal year 2021, the Biotest Group generated revenues of 515.6 million, compared to 484.2 million in the previous year.
  • This result is a consequence of growth in key sales markets due to the positive sales development of the main product Intratect(R).
  • EBIT amounted to - 47.1 million in fiscal 2021, compared to - 1.3 million in the previous year.
  • The Biotest Group's loss (EAT) for the financial year 2021 was - 63.4 million, compared to - 31.4 million in 2020.

Efanesoctocog alfa met primary and key secondary endpoints in pivotal study in hemophilia A, demonstrating superiority to prior factor prophylaxis treatment

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

The study met the primary endpoint, showing a clinically meaningful prevention of bleeds in people with severe hemophilia A receiving weekly prophylaxis with efanesoctocog alfa over a period of 52 weeks.

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  • The study met the primary endpoint, showing a clinically meaningful prevention of bleeds in people with severe hemophilia A receiving weekly prophylaxis with efanesoctocog alfa over a period of 52 weeks.
  • The key secondary endpoint was also met, demonstrating once-weekly efanesoctocog alfa was superior to prior prophylactic factor VIII replacement therapy, showing a statistically significant reduction in ABR based on intra-patient comparison.
  • Global Head of Development and Chief Medical Officer, Sanofi
    While advances have been made in the treatment of hemophilia, unmet medical needs still exist.
  • These positive topline data, showing a very low annualized bleeding rate, enhance efanesoctocog alfas potential to transform hemophilia A therapy.

Global Hemophilia Market (2022 to 2026) - Size, Trends & Forecast with Impact of COVID-19 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Wednesday, March 2, 2022

People with hemophilia have low levels of either factor VIII (8) or factor IX (9).

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  • People with hemophilia have low levels of either factor VIII (8) or factor IX (9).
  • The severity of hemophilia that a person has is determined by the number of factors in the blood.
  • The global hemophilia market has increased during the years 2017-2021.
  • Moreover, the market growth would succeed by various market trends like increasing innovation in gene therapy, development of novel hemophilia treatments, shifting focus to extended half-life th

ASC Therapeutics and Professor Steven W. Pipe Publish Expert Review on Novel Gene Therapies of Hemophilia A

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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

This publication provides an update of scientific and clinical advances in gene replacement therapies for hemophilia A with focus on:

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  • This publication provides an update of scientific and clinical advances in gene replacement therapies for hemophilia A with focus on:
    This press release features multimedia.
  • Oscar G. Segurado, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer at ASC Therapeutics, added We are thrilled that the journal Expert Opinion in Biological Therapyhas published this seminal review to inform the medical and scientific community of these exciting developments with gene therapies in hemophilia A.
  • The major challenges of current treatment regimens, such the short half-life of hemophilia therapeutics with need for frequent intravenous injections, justify ongoing focus on gene replacement therapies.
  • ASC618 is an AAV8-based gene therapy for the treatment of hemophilia A, affecting approximately 1 of every 5000 live-born males.