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Erytech Pharma Priced, Nasdaq: ERYP

French biotech developing enzyme-based therapies for rare cancers.

Industry: Health Care

First Day Return: +6.4%

Industry: Health Care

We are a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for rare forms of cancer and orphan diseases. Leveraging our proprietary ERYCAPS platform, which uses a novel technology to encapsulate therapeutic drug substances inside erythrocytes, or red blood cells, we have developed a pipeline of product candidates targeting both solid and liquid tumors for patients with high unmet medical needs. Our lead product candidate, which we refer to as eryaspase or GRASPA, targets the metabolism of cancers by depriving tumor cells of asparagine, an amino acid necessary for their survival and critical in maintaining the cells' rapid growth rate. We are developing eryaspase for the treatment of solid tumors, including pancreatic cancer. Based on the initial feedback we received from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, at our pre-IND meeting in October 2017, we plan to initiate a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of eryaspase for pancreatic cancer in the United States and Europe during the third quarter of 2018. We are also developing eryaspase for the treatment of liquid tumors, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, and acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. We expect to commence a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of eryaspase as a first-line treatment for adults with ALL by the end of the third quarter of 2018. Depending on the outcome of our discussions with the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, we intend to resubmit a Marketing Authorization Application, or MAA, for eryaspase for relapsed or refractory ALL later in October 2017. With respect to eryaspase for the treatment of AML, we are conducting a Phase 2b clinical trial in Europe and expect to report initial results from this trial by the end of 2017.
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