Aimmune Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that is investigating oral immunotherapy as a treatment for food allergy. Currently there is no F.D.A approved treatment for food allergy. Options
for patient with food allergy include food avoidance and carrying an epinephrine auto-injector in case of accidental ingestion.Aimmune presented its most recent research findings of their Phase 3 trial at the 2018 AAAAI/WAO Joint Congress conference in Orlando, Florida. Notably, in the 554 patient study, 67.2% of the patients aged 4-17 who received the experimental treatment tolerated at least 600 mg dose of peanut protein in a food challenge compared to 4% of patients who received the placebo.Currently in the US, the drug is in the FDA Breakthrough Drug Designation and is in the process of being fast-tracked for possible approval. For more information, please click here
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