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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has recommended that the oral Janus kinase 1 inhibitor abrocitinib be granted marketing authorization in the European Union for treating atopic dermatitis (AD).

The full indication is for the treatment of moderate to severe AD in adults who are candidates for systemic therapy, according to a summary of the opinion, made on Oct. 14. It will be available as 50-mg, 100-mg, and 200-mg tablets, will be marketed under the name Cibinqo, and “should be prescribed by physicians experienced in the treatment of atopic dermatitis,” the statement said.

“The benefits of Cibinqo are its ability to improve the skin condition as measured by improvements in the Investigator’s Global Assessment 0/1 and Eczema Area and Severity Index 75 response and to reduce itching in patients with atopic dermatitis,” according to the opinion. The most common side effects of abrocitinib are nausea, headache, acne, herpes simplex, increased blood creatine phosphokinase, vomiting, dizziness, and upper abdominal pain, the statement said, and infections are the most serious.

Abrocitinib was first approved for AD in the United Kingdom and in Japan in September, and is under review at the Food and Drug Administration for this indication. The first JAK inhibitor approved for AD in the United States is topical ruxolitinib (Opzelura), approved in September, for the short-term, noncontinuous chronic treatment of mild to moderate AD in nonimmunocompromised patients aged 12 years and older whose disease is not adequately controlled with topical prescription treatments, “or when those therapies are not advisable.”
 

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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has recommended that the oral Janus kinase 1 inhibitor abrocitinib be granted marketing authorization in the European Union for treating atopic dermatitis (AD).

The full indication is for the treatment of moderate to severe AD in adults who are candidates for systemic therapy, according to a summary of the opinion, made on Oct. 14. It will be available as 50-mg, 100-mg, and 200-mg tablets, will be marketed under the name Cibinqo, and “should be prescribed by physicians experienced in the treatment of atopic dermatitis,” the statement said.

“The benefits of Cibinqo are its ability to improve the skin condition as measured by improvements in the Investigator’s Global Assessment 0/1 and Eczema Area and Severity Index 75 response and to reduce itching in patients with atopic dermatitis,” according to the opinion. The most common side effects of abrocitinib are nausea, headache, acne, herpes simplex, increased blood creatine phosphokinase, vomiting, dizziness, and upper abdominal pain, the statement said, and infections are the most serious.

Abrocitinib was first approved for AD in the United Kingdom and in Japan in September, and is under review at the Food and Drug Administration for this indication. The first JAK inhibitor approved for AD in the United States is topical ruxolitinib (Opzelura), approved in September, for the short-term, noncontinuous chronic treatment of mild to moderate AD in nonimmunocompromised patients aged 12 years and older whose disease is not adequately controlled with topical prescription treatments, “or when those therapies are not advisable.”
 

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has recommended that the oral Janus kinase 1 inhibitor abrocitinib be granted marketing authorization in the European Union for treating atopic dermatitis (AD).

The full indication is for the treatment of moderate to severe AD in adults who are candidates for systemic therapy, according to a summary of the opinion, made on Oct. 14. It will be available as 50-mg, 100-mg, and 200-mg tablets, will be marketed under the name Cibinqo, and “should be prescribed by physicians experienced in the treatment of atopic dermatitis,” the statement said.

“The benefits of Cibinqo are its ability to improve the skin condition as measured by improvements in the Investigator’s Global Assessment 0/1 and Eczema Area and Severity Index 75 response and to reduce itching in patients with atopic dermatitis,” according to the opinion. The most common side effects of abrocitinib are nausea, headache, acne, herpes simplex, increased blood creatine phosphokinase, vomiting, dizziness, and upper abdominal pain, the statement said, and infections are the most serious.

Abrocitinib was first approved for AD in the United Kingdom and in Japan in September, and is under review at the Food and Drug Administration for this indication. The first JAK inhibitor approved for AD in the United States is topical ruxolitinib (Opzelura), approved in September, for the short-term, noncontinuous chronic treatment of mild to moderate AD in nonimmunocompromised patients aged 12 years and older whose disease is not adequately controlled with topical prescription treatments, “or when those therapies are not advisable.”
 

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