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Tempest Receives Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA for TPST-1495 to Treat Patients with FAP
BRISBANE, Calif., April 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tempest Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPST), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class1 targeted and immune-mediated therapeutics to fight cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to TPST-1495, the company’s novel dual receptor inhibitor of prostaglandin (PGE2) signaling, for the treatment of patients with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP). “Recei
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