Baxalta Submits Marketing Authorization Application to the European Medicines Agency for ADYNOVI for Treatment of Hemophilia A Patients

BANNOCKBURN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Baxalta Incorporated (NYSE:BXLT), a global biopharmaceutical leader dedicated to delivering transformative therapies to patients with orphan diseases and underserved conditions, today announced that it has submitted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of ADYNOVI, an extended circulating half-life recombinant Factor VIII (rFVIII) treatment, for pediatric, adolescent and adult patients with hemophilia A and for use during surgery. Currently licensed in the U.S. as ADYNOVATE [Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant), PEGylated] and under regulatory review in Japan, Canada and Switzerland, ADYNOVI is the only rFVIII treatment for hemophilia A developed based on the demonstrated efficacy of ADVATE [Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant)].