Geron Announces Submission of New Drug Application to FDA for First-in-Class Telomerase Inhibitor Imetelstat

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Jun 20, 2023

Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company, today announced the submission to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a New Drug Application (NDA) for imetelstat for the treatment of transfusion-dependent anemia in adult patients with low- to intermediate-1 risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) who have failed to respond or have lost response to or are ineligible for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs).