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Apr20
Allos Therapeutics’ PDX (pralatrexate), Granted EMEA Orphan Drug Designation
Allos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTH)’s novel antifolate PDX (pralatrexate) for the treatment of patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) has been granted Orphan Drug Designation by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA).
PDX is a novel, small molecule chemotherapeutic agent that inhibits dihydrofolate reductase, or DHFR, a folic acid (folate)-dependent enzyme involved in the building of nucleic acid, or DNA, and other allos_therapeutics.gifprocesses.
PDX was rationally designed for efficient transport into tumor cells via the reduced folate carrier, or RFC-1, and effective intracellular drug retention.

PDX has been awarded the USFDA orphan drug designation in July 2006 for the treatment of patients with T-cell lymphoma and in October 2006 has been granted FDA fast track designation for the treatment of patients with T-cell lymphoma.

Accounting for approximately 10% to 15% of all cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), peripheral T-cell lymphomas (or PTCLs) are a biologically diverse group of blood cancers with an average five year survival rate of approximately 25%.

Currently, there are no pharmaceutical agents approved for the treatment of either first-line or relapsed or refractory PTCLs.

Find more details from the full report.


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