Chung Kun Dang announced on the 28th that it has applied to the MFDS for permission for the item of the macular denaturation drug CKD-701.

CKD-701(Ranibizumab) is a biosimilar product from Lucentis. Lucentis, sold by Roche and Novartis, is a drug used to treat ophthalmic diseases such as macular degenerative diabetes and macular edema. Lucentis' annual global sales amounted to about ₩4.6 trillion.

Chung Kun Dang confirmed clinical equivalence with Lucentis through phase 3 of CKD-701, which was conducted at 25 hospitals including Seoul National University from September 2018 to March this year for 312 patients with 312 patients with age-related macular degeneration.

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