{"id":208158,"date":"2010-01-21T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=59517"},"modified":"2010-01-21T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:28:11","slug":"fda-to-rule-on-genzyme-drug-in-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/208158","title":{"rendered":"FDA to Rule on Genzyme Drug in Six Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/pompe-disease\/\">Pompe disease<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/FDA\/\">FDA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Drugs\/\">Drugs<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Ryan McBride wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FDA has told Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme (NASDAQ:<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=GENZ\">GENZ<\/a>) that the agency plans to make a decision on its application for approval of Pompe drug alglucosidase alfa (Lumizyme) made in 4,000-liter batches by June 17, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20100121006010\/en\/Genzyme%E2%80%99s-Lumizyme-BLA-Receives-Six-Month-FDA-Review\">company<\/a>. The agency decided not to approve the treatment in November, citing lingering issues at Genzyme&#8217;s Allston Landing plant in Boston, where the drug is no longer manufactured. Genzyme plans to manufacture the treatment&#8212;which is marketed outside the U.S. as Myozyme&#8212;at its facility in Geel, Belgium.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/21\/fda-to-decide-fate-of-genzymes-lumizyme-in-six-months\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20FDA%20to%20Rule%20on%20Genzyme%20Drug%20in%20Six%20Months%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=59517\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/21\/fda-to-decide-fate-of-genzymes-lumizyme-in-six-months\/&#038;t=FDA%20to%20Rule%20on%20Genzyme%20Drug%20in%20Six%20Months\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/21\/fda-to-decide-fate-of-genzymes-lumizyme-in-six-months\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=FDA+to+Rule+on+Genzyme+Drug+in+Six+Months&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F01%2F21%2Ffda-to-decide-fate-of-genzymes-lumizyme-in-six-months%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=797597c6cd2f5d338688f73aaf4de5ef&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=797597c6cd2f5d338688f73aaf4de5ef&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2218\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9YxUExYpKFzYkprIvk_kc3L5sUo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9YxUExYpKFzYkprIvk_kc3L5sUo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9YxUExYpKFzYkprIvk_kc3L5sUo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9YxUExYpKFzYkprIvk_kc3L5sUo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/ITg35B6bPDs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pompe disease, FDA, Drugs Ryan McBride wrote: The FDA has told Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme (NASDAQ:GENZ) that the agency plans to make a decision on its application for approval of Pompe drug alglucosidase alfa (Lumizyme) made in 4,000-liter batches by June 17, according to the company. The agency decided not to approve the treatment in November, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}