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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Syndax Announces Orphan Drug Designation Granted to SNDX-5613 by European Commission for the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Syndax,” the “Company” or “we”) (Nasdaq: SNDX), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies, today announced that the European Commission has granted Orphan Drug Designation to SNDX-5613, the Company’s highly selective oral menin inhibitor, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

“Supported by a growing body of clinical data, we firmly believe that SNDX-5613 is ideally positioned to serve as a best-in-class, meaningful intervention for patients with NPM1 and MLLr acute leukemias,” said Briggs W. Morrison, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Syndax. “Receipt of Orphan Drug Designation from the European Commission further validates the important role that SNDX-5613 could play in the treatment of this highly underserved patient population, and we are fully committed to ensuring that it is able to reach as many of these patients as possible.”

The European Commission grants Orphan Drug Designation for medicinal products intended to treat life-threatening or chronically debilitating conditions that affect fewer than five in 10,000 people in the European Union (EU) and when no satisfactory method of diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of the condition can be authorized. The designation provides certain benefits and incentives in the EU, including protocol assistance, fee reductions, and ten years of market exclusivity once the medicine is on the market.

SNDX-5613 was previously granted Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of adult and pediatric AML by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 

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