Crossject reports strong manufacturing progress with its epilepsy rescue therapy ZEPIZURE® ahead of filing U.S. Emergency Use Authorization
October 22 2024 - 12:30AM
UK Regulatory
Crossject reports strong manufacturing progress with its epilepsy
rescue therapy ZEPIZURE® ahead of filing U.S. Emergency Use
Authorization
- Product batch announced in July
yielded new regulatory stability data. These results will directly
support the requested 6-month stability data in the first quarter
of 2025
- Crossject expects to file for EUA
early next year and to receive a positive FDA response shortly
thereafter
- Crossject will manufacture
additional product batches, including first commercial batches in
early 2025, in anticipation of first BARDA deliveries later that
year
Dijon, France, October 22 2024 (07:30
CET) - Crossject (ISIN: FR0011716265; Euronext: ALCJ), a specialty
pharma company developing the award-winning needle-free ZENEO®
auto-injector to deliver life-saving medicines in emergency
situations, is reporting strong progress in producing the
manufacturing batches of its ZEPIZURE® epilepsy rescue therapy that
are required to meet the stringent standards for its upcoming
anticipated authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
Granting of the EUA will mark a major value
creation milestone for Crossject and allow the company to fulfil
its first sales order of ZEPIZURE® from the Biomedical Advanced
Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response within the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for the CHEMPACK
program. The company expects to file its EUA for ZEPIZURE® early
next year and to receive a positive response from the FDA shortly
thereafter.
On July 18, the company announced a significant
step forward in completing the production of a new batch for its
EUA. This batch will generate six months’ worth of International
Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for
Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) stability data, allowing the
determination of the shelf life of the product. The company has now
successfully manufactured several product batches since December
2023. Such batches are a critical part of the data which Crossject
will submit to the FDA to support its EUA.
Together with Crossject’s upcoming U.S.
bioequivalence study, the manufactured batches and the new
registration batches Crossject will produce during the first
quarter of 2025 will also represent an essential part of the
company’s future New Drug Application filings from 2025 onward.
“I am very pleased with the strong manufacturing
progress Crossject is continuing to make in preparing for the
commercialization of ZEPIZURE® epilepsy rescue therapy. Through
hard work from our dedicated teams, we are now close to gathering
all the data required for a successful EUA in the U.S. This crucial
regulatory step will enable us not only to start delivering orders
for national preparedness efforts under our contract with BARDA but
also form the bedrock for our commercial strategy in the U.S.,”
said Patrick Alexandre, Chief Executive Officer of Crossject.
Earlier analysis performed on clinical batches
of ZEPIZURE® showed excellent stability data after 36 months,
raising strong expectations for future production. The steady
manufacturing progress that Crossject has been demonstrating over
2024 also shows that the transition to the laboratories of Eurofins
CDMO, which executes fill-and-finish activities for ZEPIZURE® for
supply to BARDA, has been flawless and has not in any way affected
the data gathered about manufacturing batches so far.
This project has been supported in whole or in
part with federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and
Response; BARDA, under contract number 75A50122C00031.
About Crossject
Crossject SA (Euronext: ALCJ; www.crossject.com) is an
emerging specialty pharmaceuticals company developing medicines for
emergency situations harnessing its award-winning needle-free
auto-injector ZENEO® platform. Crossject is in advanced regulatory
development for ZEPIZURE®, an epileptic rescue therapy, for which
it has a $60 million contract* with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced
Research and Development Authority (BARDA). The Company’s versatile
ZENEO® platform is designed to enable patients or untrained
caregivers to easily and instantly deliver a broad range of
emergency medicines via intramuscular injection on bare skin or
even through clothing. The Company’s other products in development
include mainly solutions for allergic shocks and adrenal
insufficiencies, as well as therapies and other emergency
indications.
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