Each year, Rare Disease Day aims to raise awareness of rare diseases and encourage positive change to patients’ lives. A disease is considered rare when it affects fewer than 1 in 2,000 people and there are 300 million people with rare diseases across the world.1 On Rare Disease Day 2023, we want to celebrate the […]
It’s nearly the end of 2022! It was an exciting year for Optimum’s clients which demonstrated the resilience and creativity that has made the life sciences industry so successful. We have outlined below a small fraction of the activity that has kept us busy this year: Deal, deals, deals As usual, 2022 was a year […]
We are proud to work with amazing companies focused on developing new treatments for rare diseases, generating change for the 300 million people worldwide
TARPEYO (budesonide) delayed release capsules is the first and only treatment indicated to reduce proteinuria in adults with primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN) at risk of rapid disease progression, generally a urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) ≥1.5g/g1 TARPEYO (developed under the project name NEFECON) is the first and only FDA- approved treatment that was specifically designed for […]
Since taking over as CEO of Calliditas Therapeutics in 2017, Renee Aguiar-Lucander has taken the biotech through an IPO in Stockholm and commenced a pivotal phase 3 trial plus major licensing deals and a secondary fund raise. She has established a US presence, made transformational regulatory milestones, and this month completed a successful upsized US […]
