AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Description AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages the development and commercialization of a therapeutic iron compound to treat iron deficiency anemia (IDA). The company's principal product includes Feraheme (ferumoxytol) injection for intravenous (IV) use, which was approved for marketing in the United States in June 2009 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for use as an IV iron replacement therapy for the treatment of IDA in adult patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The company also markets Feraheme in Canada, the European Union, and Switzerland. In addition, its development projects comprise Feraheme for patients with IDA regardless of the underlying cause, which has completed Phase III clinical program. The company sells Feraheme primarily to authorized wholesalers and specialty distributors. AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has a license, development, and commercialization agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to develop and commercialize Feraheme/Rienso as a therapeutic agent in Europe, certain Asia-Pacific countries, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Canada, India, and Turkey; and collaboration and exclusive license agreement with 3SBio for the development and commercialization of Feraheme as a therapeutic agent in China for an initial indication for the treatment of IDA in patients with CKD and an option to expand into additional therapeutic indications. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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