Shares of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN), +2.21% were up 4.7% in premarket trading on Thursday, the day after the company said it had submitted a request for emergency authorization to the Food and Drug Administration for its experimental antibody treatment. The therapy was prescribed to President Donald Trump last week as part of his COVID-19 treatment plan; on Wednesday, in a video, Trump called it a “cure.” (He was also prescribed Gilead Sciences Inc.’s GILD, +1.63% redeliver, and the steroid dexamethasone.)
Regeneron’s stock price rose over 4% in premarket trading Thursday after the company submitted an “emergency use authorization” request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Covid-19 antibody treatment.
Its REGN-COV2 monoclonal antibody coronavirus therapy is what President Donald Trump took last week after being diagnosed with Covid-19. He has since described it as a “cure” even though there’s no such scientific proof.
The biotech company published a statement Wednesday noting that “if a EUA is granted the government has committed to making these doses available to the American people at no cost and would be responsible for their distribution.”
The treatment is now available for about 50,000 patients, Regeneron said, “and we expect to have doses available for 300,000 patients in total within the next few months.”
REGN-COV2 is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies and was “designed specifically to block infectivity” of the virus that causes Covid-19.
Trump was given an 8-gram dose of the antibody cocktail early in the course of his infection, despite it not being authorized by the FDA.
Regeneron said preclinical studies have shown that REGN-COV2 reduced the amount of virus and associated damage in the lungs of non-human primates. The company has recently partnered with Roche to increase the global supply of REGN-COV2 if approved.
“If REGNCOV2 proves safe and effective in clinical trials and regulatory approvals are granted, Regeneron will manufacture and distribute it in the U.S. (beyond the initial U.S. Government supply) and Roche will develop, manufacture and distribute it outside the U.S.,” the company said.
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