Vumerity Recommended for EU Approval as RRMS Treatment

A committee of the European Medicines Agency is recommending that Vumerity (diroximel fumarate) be approved as an oral treatment for adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in the European Union.

The opinion, from the agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), will now be sent to the European Commission, which will issue a final decision and has historically followed the committee’s recommendations.

“Today’s CHMP opinion is a crucial step forward in providing an oral therapeutic option that is easy to integrate into a patient’s daily life, which helps with ongoing care management,” Simon Faissner, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the department of neurology at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, said in a press release.

Vumerity, developed by Alkermes and Biogen, is an oral medication containing diroximel fumarate, an inactive molecule (prodrug) that gets converted into its active form, monomethyl fumarate (MMF), inside the body.

September 20, 2021

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