U.S. FDA Orphan Drug Designation Granted to Bexobrutideg (NX-5948) for the Treatment of Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
“The FDA’s Orphan Drug Designation for bexobrutideg, also known as NX-5948, represents an important milestone in our regulatory strategy and underscores the significant unmet medical need for improved treatments for Waldenström macroglobulinemia,” said Arthur T. Sands, M.D., Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Nurix. “Granting of the designation highlights bexobrutideg’s potential to provide patients with WM a promising new therapeutic option. We are also pleased to announce that our investigational therapy bexobrutideg has been assigned a nonproprietary name reflecting its novel mechanism of action, designated with the unique suffix “deg” for degrader.”
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