BMS Kidney Transplant Drug Approved

Bristol-Myers Squibb received approval from the FDA for Nulojix (belatacept) to prevent acute rejection in adult patients who have had a kidney transplant.

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Bristol-Myers Squibb received approval from the FDA for Nulojix (belatacept) to prevent acute rejection in adult patients who have had a kidney transplant. Nulojix is a selective T-cell costimulation blocker. The drug helps to prevent organ rejection after a kidney transplant. Without immunosuppression, the body can reject a transplanted organ because the immune system recognizes the new organ as foreign (transplant rejection). Nulojix was evaluated in two open-label, randomized, multicenter, ...

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