Akcea Announces FDA Advisory Committee Meeting to Review Volanesorsen as a Treatment for Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKCA), an affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., focused on developing and commercializing drugs to treat patients with serious cardiometabolic diseases caused by lipid disorders, today announced that the Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold an advisory committee meeting to review data supporting the new drug application (NDA) for volanesorsen. The meeting is tentatively scheduled for May 10, 2018. Volanesorsen is an investigational therapy for the treatment of a rare lipid disorder called familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), which is characterized by the buildup of fats in the body due to a deficiency in the enzyme lipoprotein lipase. “Today, there is no effective therapy approved to treat people with FCS. Standard triglyceride-lowering agents are generally ineffective in lowering the extremely high triglyceride levels th
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