The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to the active ingredient in Soligenix Inc.’s Marvax, a heat stable subunit protein vaccine of recombinantly expressed Marburg marburgvirus (MARV) glycoprotein, for the prevention and post-exposure prophylaxis against MARV infection.
BLR Bio LLC announced that the U.S. FDA has granted orphan drug designation to BLR-200, the company’s investigational therapy for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc).