Article: Sirion Therapeutics Receives Orphan Drug Designation for Ophthalmic Drug to Treat Viral Eye Infection.

TAMPA, Fla., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirion Therapeutics, Inc., an ophthalmic-focused biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has received orphan drug designation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its anti-viral therapy, ganciclovir, for the treatment of acute herpetic keratitis. The product is currently marketed by Laboratoires Thea in Europe under the brand name of Virgan(R). Sirion licensed the rights to Virgan(R) for the United States from Laboratoires Thea in January 2007.

Orphan drug designation is a special status for diseases or conditions affecting fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States, granted by FDA upon request by a ...

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