Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Mar 2024
PepGen receives US FDA orphan drug and rare paediatric disease designations for PGN-EDO51 for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
13 March 2024 - PepGen today announced that the US FDA granted both orphan drug and rare paediatric disease designations for PGN-EDO51, an investigational therapeutic for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients whose mutations are amenable to an exon 51 skipping approach.
PepGen is evaluating PGN-EDO51 for the treatment of DMD in the ongoing CONNECT1 Phase 2 trial, and expects to begin enrolling patients in the CONNECT2 Phase 2 trial later this year.
