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Wacker to make active for Chiesi drug

by Michael McCoy
January 15, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 3

A photo of Wacker's biologic drug plant in Halle, Germany.
Credit: Wacker Chemie
FDA recently inspected this Wacker plant in Halle, Germany.

Wacker Biotech will produce reteplase, the active ingredient in Retavase, for the Italian drug company Chiesi, which is relaunching the drug in the U.S. Reteplase is a recombinant nonglycosylated form of human tissue plasminogen activator used to dissolve blood clots. Wacker will produce the drug at its plant in Halle, Germany, which was recently inspected by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Roche previously made the active for Chiesi.

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