For Immediate Release
December 20, 2004
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Bo Piela
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Investor Contact:
Sally Curley
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CAMBRIDGE, MA—Genzyme Corp. (Nasdaq: GENZ) announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has accepted its marketing authorization application for Myozyme® (alglucosidase alfa), an investigational enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease. If approved, Myozyme would become the first treatment available to patients with Pompe disease, a debilitating and often fatal muscle disorder resulting from an inherited enzyme deficiency.
The EMEA’s Committee for Human Medicinal Products is expected to issue an opinion on the Myozyme application within one year, and a decision by the European Commission is anticipated early in 2006.