SAINT-GENIS-POUILLY, France, May 23, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advanced Accelerator Applications S.A. (NASDAQ:AAAP) (“AAA” or “the Company”), an international specialist in Molecular Nuclear Medicine (MNM), today announced that it is scaling up its Ivrea site for Lutathera production. AAA has recently submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its lead Neuro Endocrine Tumor therapeutic candidate Lutathera. The EMA has recently granted Accelerated Assessment for Lutathera. The Ivrea extension is in anticipation of the NDA and MAA approvals.
The AAA Ivrea site hosts the Headquarters of AAA Italy and is located in the Bioindustry Park Silvano Fumero, between Turin and Milan. AAA started commercial operations on this site in 2008. Since then the site has almost doubled in size and increased headcount by 46 employees. The site currently covers 640sqm of laboratories and 530sqm of office space and employs 52 people.
“The AAA Ivrea site is one of Lutathera’s birth places. It is in Ivrea that Lutathera was developed from a radiochemical point of view,” said Stefano Buono, Chief Executive Officer of AAA. “As we ramp up for the Lutathera launch we are putting all of the pieces in place to ensure seamless production and distribution of Lutathera in Europe and in the US. The extension of the AAA Ivrea site is essential to achieve these objectives.”
“We are proud to have such an active company in the Bioindustry Park Silvano Fumero. We have helped AAA in its journey and are happy to see that eight years after its arrival the Company is still here and growing,” said Fabrizio Conicella, Director of the Bioindustry Park Silvano Fumero.
Today the AAA Ivrea site is one of three Lutathera production sites in Europe. Lutathera is currently administered on a compassionate use and named patient basis for the treatment of NETs in ten European countries and in the US under an Expanded Access Program (EAP). All the Lutathera doses for the Lutathera NETTER-1 Phase 3 clinical trial were produced in Italy either in Ivrea or in Forlì. The Ivrea site produced all the Lutathera doses delivered to the US sites in the Phase 3 trial. The US doses for NETTER-1 represent a total of 206 doses to date. When Lutathera is approved the AAA Ivrea site will produce Lutathera for European patients and serve as a back up for our new production site in Millburn, New Jersey, for US patients when needed.
The Ivrea site should be undergoing an FDA inspection in the upcoming months for Lutathera production. It will be the second AAA site in Italy visited by the FDA. The AAA/GiPharma Saluggia site successfully completed a FDA Pre-Approval-Inspection in October 2015 prompted by the NDA submission of Somakit-TATE.
About Advanced Accelerator Applications
Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) is an innovative radiopharmaceutical company that develops, produces and commercializes Molecular Nuclear Medicine (MNM) products. AAA’s lead therapeutic product candidate, Lutathera, is a novel MNM compound that AAA is currently developing for the treatment of Neuro Endocrine Tumors, a significant unmet medical need. Founded in 2002, AAA has its headquarters in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, France. AAA currently has 18 production and R&D facilities able to manufacture both diagnostics and therapeutic MNM products, and has over 440 employees in 13 countries (France, Italy, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, U.S. and Canada). In 2015 AAA reported sales of €88.6 million (+26.8% vs. 2014). AAA is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker “AAAP”. For more information please visit: www.adacap.com
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