Alnylam Announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration Acceptance of Supplemental New Drug Application for Vutrisiran for the Treatment of ATTR Amyloidosis with Cardiomyopathy
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Company’s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for vutrisiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic in development for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). Based on the Company’s use of a Priority Review Voucher, the FDA has set an action date goal of March 23, 2025, under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). The FDA has informed the Company that it is not planning to hold an advisory committee meeting at this time to review the application.
Vutrisiran is the generic name for AMVUTTRA, which is currently approved by the FDA for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR-PN) in adults. By rapidly knocking down both mutant and wild‑type transthyretin (TTR), vutrisiran addresses the underlying cause of transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR). If approved, vutrisiran would become the first therapeutic approved in the U.S. to treat both the polyneuropathy manifestations of hATTR and cardiomyopathy manifestations of ATTR amyloidosis.
“We are pleased that the FDA has accepted our sNDA for vutrisiran for the treatment of ATTR with cardiomyopathy – a steadily progressing, debilitating and ultimately fatal disease,” said Pushkal Garg, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Alnylam. “In HELIOS-B, treatment with vutrisiran improved cardiovascular outcomes, survival, disease progression and quality of life, as compared to placebo, in a population reflective of today’s patients on substantial background treatment. We look forward to working with the FDA to support their review of the application and bring vutrisiran to patients with ATTR-CM in the U.S. early next year.”
The supplemental application to the FDA was based on positive results from HELIOS-B, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter global Phase 3 study in patients with ATTR-CM. The study demonstrated favorable effects of vutrisiran on outcomes of death and cardiovascular events, functional capacity and quality of life in patients with ATTR-CM. These treatment effects were seen on top of substantial background standard of care treatments. Vutrisiran demonstrated encouraging safety and tolerability consistent with the established profile of the drug. Detailed results from the study were presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress and simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine on August 30, 2024.
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