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Efalizumab (brand name Raptiva, Genentech, Merck Serono) is a formerly available medication designed to treat autoimmune diseases, originally marketed to treat psoriasis.As implied by the suffix -zumab, it is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody administered once weekly by subcutaneous injection.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved trastuzumab emtansine in February 2013, and granted the application for Kadcyla to Genentech. [18] The FDA granted the application for trastuzumab emtansine priority review and breakthrough therapy designations. [24] In 2013, trastuzumab emtansine was approved in the UK, [4] and the EU. [6]
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Genentech, Inc. is an American biotechnology corporation headquartered in South San Francisco, California, wholly owned by the Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, the Roche Group. It became an independent subsidiary of Roche in 2009. Genentech Research and Early Development operates as an independent center within Roche. [6]
Somatrem was first marketed under the brand name Protropin by Genentech in 1985. [2] It differs from endogenous growth hormone by the addition of an extra methionine at the N-terminus [3] [circular reference]. Somatrem has largely been replaced by somatropin, marketed by several companies including by Genentech as the brand Nutropin.
Emicizumab, sold under the brand name Hemlibra, is a humanized bispecific monoclonal antibody for the treatment of haemophilia A, developed by Genentech and Chugai (both organizations are subsidiaries of Hoffmann-La Roche). [4] A Phase I clinical trial found that it was well tolerated by healthy subjects. [5]
Polatuzumab vedotin is a novel antibody-drug conjugate, and DLBCL is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [9] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to polatuzumab vedotin used in combination with the chemotherapy bendamustine and a rituximab product.