Purdue Pharma has named Julie Ducharme as its CSO. Ducharme rejoins Purdue at a time when it is trying to expand beyond the opioids that built but now threaten to sink its business.
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imbrium Therapeutics L.P., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company and operating subsidiary of Purdue Pharma L.P., in conjunction with Mundipharma EDO GmbH, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) to its investigational drug tinostamustine, a potentially first-in-class alkylating deacetylase inhibiting molecule being studied in early phase clinical trials, for the treatment of T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL).