Orphan Drug Designation Granted to Soquelitinib for the Treatment of T Cell Lymphoma
“Peripheral T cell lymphoma is an aggressive subset of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma typically associated with a poor prognosis,” said Richard A. Miller, M.D., co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Corvus. “For these patients, there is significant need for new therapies given that existing drugs provide limited efficacy and are associated with significant toxicity. There are no FDA approved agents for relapsed PTCL. The orphan drug designation is an important milestone in the development of soquelitinib that reinforces the unmet need for patients with T cell lymphoma.”
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