Allergan and Paratek Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a New Drug Application (NDA) to review Seysara (sarecycline) for the treatment of moderate to severe acne vulgaris in patients 9 years of age and older. Seysara is a once-daily, oral, narrow spectrum tetracycline-derived antibiotic with anti-inflammatory properties for the potential treatment of moderate to severe acne in the community setting.
"The FDA's NDA acceptance is encouraging as results shown in the Seysara (sarecycline) Phase 3 trials involving 2,002 patients demonstrate that Seysara, if approved, has the potential to be a new, effective, safe and well-tolerated treatment option for physicians treating patients with moderate to severe acne," said Evan Loh, MD, president, chief operating officer and chief medical officer of Paratek.
The application includes two identically-designed, large, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase 3 studies, which demonstrated that once-daily sarecycline 1.5 mg/kg significantly improved acne severity based on Investigator's Global Assessment (IGA) success and significantly reduced inflammatory lesion count vs placebo at week 12 in patients with moderate to severe facial acne vulgaris. In March 2017, Allergan announced positive results of these Phase 3 studies, which met their primary efficacy endpoints.