MaaT Pharma Shifts Focus to U.S. Clinical Trial for MaaT013 Following Negative European Regulatory Opinion
MaaT Pharma, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) maintained its negative opinion regarding the Conditional Marketing Authorization (CMA) application for MaaT013 (Xervyteg®). This decision, following a re-examination, concerns the treatment of acute Graft-versus-Host Disease (aGvHD) in adult patients with gastrointestinal involvement refractory to prior lines of therapy. The CHMP's view is that the available clinical data, based on a single-arm trial, does not sufficiently characterize the benefit-risk profile of MaaT013. Consequently, MaaT Pharma will now prioritize advancing its U.S. development plan for MaaT013, focusing on a randomized controlled Phase 3 trial named PHOENIX. Feedback from a Type C interaction with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supports the advancement of PHOENIX as a registrational Phase 3 trial, with potential first patient enrollment in the first half of 2027, c...