Edgewise Receives European Medicines Agency (EMA) Orphan Drug Designations for Sevasemten (EDG-5506) for the Treatment of Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophies

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edgewise Therapeutics, Inc., (Nasdaq: EWTX), a leading muscle disease biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted Orphan Drug Designations for sevasemten for the treatment of Becker muscular dystrophy (Becker) and for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne). Sevasemten is an investigational orally administered small molecule designed to prevent contraction-induced muscle damage. Sevasemten is cu