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Last update: Sep 30, 2025
WATERTOWN, Mass., Sept. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Disc Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRON), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel treatments for patients suffering from serious hematologic diseases, today announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for bitopertin for patients aged 12 years and older with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), including X-linked protoporphyria (XLP). Disc submitted the NDA under the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway using reduction of protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) as a surrogate endpoint and requested a Priority Review based on bitopertin’s potential to address the significant unmet need for EPP patients. Bitopertin has received Orphan Drug Designation and Rare Pediatric Disease Designation from the FDA.
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