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Portola Enters Into Clinical Collab with Daiichi Sankyo

Together will develop andexanet alfa with edoxaban in Japan

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Portola Pharmaceuticals has entered into a clinical collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo to develop andexanet alfa as an antidote for edoxaban, Daiichi Sankyo’s Factor Xa inhibitor, in Japan. Portola is developing andexanet alfa, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-designated breakthrough therapy, for patients treated with a direct or indirect Factor Xa inhibitor when reversal of anticoagulation is needed, such as for life-threatening or uncontrolled bleeding or emergency surgery and urgen...

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