DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT:NAVB) has announced it will receive payments totaling $1 million from two recently achieved Lymphoseek® commercial milestones under its distribution agreements with U.S. partner Cardinal Health, Inc. (Cardinal) and European partner SpePharm AG, an affiliate of Norgine B.V. (Norgine). Navidea will collect a $500,000 milestone payment from Cardinal based on the sale of a 100,000th patient dose of Lymphoseek (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) injection since launch. The Company will also receive a $500,000 payment from Norgine resulting from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) positive opinion for the Lymphoseek 50 microgram kit for radiopharmaceutical preparation, a reduced-mass, single-dose vial appropriate for the radiopharmaceutical distribution model in Europe.
“We are pleased with the meaningful progress that Navidea and its partners have made in our commercial distribution efforts in both the U.S. and Europe,” said Jed Latkin, interim Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. “These milestones reflect the growing acceptance of Lymphoseek in the U.S. for improving the outcomes in patients with melanoma, breast and oral cavity cancers and signal the expected European launch of Lymphoseek in Q42016.”
Lymphoseek is approved in the U.S. by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in lymphatic mapping to locate lymph nodes draining a primary tumor site in patients with solid tumors for which this procedure is a component of intraoperative management and for guiding Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SLNB) using a handheld gamma counter in patients with node negative squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, breast cancer or melanoma. Lymphoseek is indicated in the EU for imaging and intraoperative detection of sentinel lymph nodes draining a primary tumor in adult patients with breast cancer, melanoma, or localized squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity.1
About Navidea
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NAVB) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of precision immunodiagnostic agents and immunotherapeutics. Navidea is developing multiple precision-targeted products and platforms including Manocept™ and NAV4694 to help identify the sites and pathways of undetected disease and enable better diagnostic accuracy, clinical decision-making, targeted treatment and, ultimately, patient care. Lymphoseek® (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) injection, Navidea’s first commercial product from the Manocept platform, was approved by the FDA in March 2013 and in Europe in November 2014. The development activities of the Manocept immunotherapeutic platform will be conducted by Navidea in conjunction with its subsidiary, Macrophage Therapeutics. Navidea’s strategy is to deliver superior growth and shareholder return by bringing to market novel products and advancing the Company’s pipeline through global partnering and commercialization efforts. For more information, please visit www.navidea.com.
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References
1 European Medicines Agency LYMPHOSEEK approval 2014. http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/medicines/human/medicines/002085/human_med_001827.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058001d124. Accessed 13 September 2016.
