About Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

Contact Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Editorial

Patrick McLaughlin

Serena Aburahma

Advertising and Sponsorship Sales

Peter Fretty - Vice President, Market Leader

Tim Carli - Business Development Manager

Brayden Hudspeth - Sales Development Representative

Subscriptions and Memberships

Subscribe to our newsletters and manage your subscriptions

Feedback/Problems

Send a message to our general in-box

 

LEO Pharma announces European Commission approval of Adtralza® (tralokinumab) as the first and only treatment specifically targeting IL-13 for adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis

  • The European Commission regulatory approval is primarily supported by data from the ECZTRA 1, 2 and ECZTRA 3 pivotal Phase 3 trials, in which Adtralza demonstrated significant improvements in atopic dermatitis signs and symptoms, with treatment response rates gradually improved and maintained over time1-3
  • Adtralza was generally well tolerated with an overall frequency and severity of adverse events comparable with placebo1-3
  • Adtralza was also shown to reduce itch and improve health-related quality of life1-3

LEO Pharma A/S, a global leader in medical dermatology, today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved Adtralza® (tralokinumab) for the treatment of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis in adult patients who are candidates for systemic therapy. The European approval makes Adtralza the first high affinity, fully human monoclonal antibody approved to specifically bind to and inhibit the IL-13 cytokine, a key driver of atopic dermatitis signs and symptoms.1,4,5

Adtralza will be available in a 150 mg/mL prefilled syringe for subcutaneous injection with an initial dose of 600 mg followed by 300 mg every other week.1 Adtralza can be used with or without topical corticosteroids (TCS).1

“This European Commission approval of Adtralza means that clinicians across Europe now have an important new treatment option for adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, which is a chronic, unpredictable skin disease,” said Stephan Weidinger, MD, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany and tralokinumab clinical trial investigator. “By specifically targeting IL-13 with high affinity, Adtralza has demonstrated that it can reduce atopic dermatitis signs and symptoms and sustain improvements over time.”

The approval is based primarily on efficacy and safety results from the ECZTRA 1, 2 and ECZTRA 3 pivotal Phase 3 trials, which included more than 1,900 adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis.1 Safety data was evaluated from a pool of five randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, including ECZTRA 1, 2 and ECZTRA 3, a dose-ranging trial, and a vaccine response trial.1

“This European Commission approval of Adtralza is an important development for the millions of adults in Europe who are living with this often uncontrolled skin disease,” said Catherine Mazzacco, President and CEO of LEO Pharma. “We are proud to have the opportunity to offer a new long-term treatment option for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis and are working closely with key stakeholders to enable access to Adtralza for eligible patients.”

The European Commission decision is valid in all European Union Member States, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. Additional regulatory filings are underway with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom and other health authorities worldwide.

About Adtralza (tralokinumab)

Adtralza (tralokinumab) is a fully human, monoclonal antibody developed to specifically neutralize the IL-13 cytokine, which plays a key role in the immune process underlying atopic dermatitis signs and symptoms. Adtralza specifically binds to the IL-13 cytokine with high affinity, thereby preventing interaction with the IL-13 receptor α1 and α2 subunits (IL-13Rα1 and IL-13Rα2).4,5

About the pivotal ECZTRA 1, 2, and ECZTRA 3 Trials

ECZTRA 1 and ECZTRA 2 (ECZema TRAlokinumab trials Nos. 1 and 2) were randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multinational 52-week trials, which included 802 and 794 adult patients, respectively, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Adtralza (300 mg) as monotherapy in adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis who were candidates for systemic therapy.2

ECZTRA 3 (ECZema TRAlokinumab trial No. 3) was a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multinational 32-week trial, which included 380 adult patients, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Adtralza (300 mg) in combination with TCS in adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis who are candidates for systemic therapy.3

About atopic dermatitis

Atopic dermatitis is a chronic, inflammatory, skin disease characterized by intense itch and eczematous lesions.6 Atopic dermatitis is the result of skin barrier dysfunction and immune dysregulation, leading to chronic inflammation.7 Type 2 cytokines, including IL-13, play a central role in the key aspects of atopic dermatitis pathophysiology.4

About LEO Pharma

LEO Pharma helps people achieve healthy skin. The company is a leader in medical dermatology with a robust R&D pipeline, a wide range of therapies and a pioneering spirit. Founded in 1908 and owned by the LEO Foundation, LEO Pharma has devoted decades of research and development to advance the science of dermatology, setting new standards of care for people with skin conditions. LEO Pharma is headquartered in Denmark with a global team of 6,000 people, serving 93 million patients in 130 countries. In 2020, the company generated net sales of DKK 10,133 million. For more information please visit www.LEO-Pharma.com.

References

  1. Adtralza® (tralokinumab) EU Product Information. LEO Pharma; June 2021.
  2. Wollenberg A, et al. Tralokinumab for moderate‐to‐severe atopic dermatitis: results from two 52‐week, randomized, double‐blind, multicentre, placebo‐controlled phase III trials (ECZTRA 1 and ECZTRA 2). Br J Dermatol. 2021; 437-449.
  3. Silverberg JI, et al. Tralokinumab plus topical corticosteroids for the treatment of moderate‐to‐severe atopic dermatitis: results from the double‐blind, randomized, multicentre, placebo‐controlled phase III ECZTRA 3 trial. Br J Dermatol. 2021; 450-463.
  4. Bieber T. Interleukin-13: targeting an underestimated cytokine in atopic dermatitis. Allergy. 2020; 75:54-62.
  5. Popovic B, et al. Structural characterisation reveals mechanism of IL-13-neutralising monoclonal antibody tralokinumab as inhibition of binding to IL-13Rα1 and IL-13Rα2. J Mol Biol. 2017; 429:208–19.
  6. Weidinger S, et al. Atopic dermatitis. Lancet. 2016; 387:1109-1122.
  7. Boguniewicz M, et al. Atopic dermatitis: a disease of altered skin barrier and immune dysregulation. Immunol Rev. 2011;242(1):233-46.

June 2021 MAT-46806

Contacts

Stock Quote API & Stock News API supplied by www.cloudquote.io
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service.