Singapore, June 25 -- XW Laboratories Inc., a China headquartered clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery of novel small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of neurological disorders, on 24 June 2019, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to the company's lead proprietary compound XWL-008 for the treatment of patients with narcolepsy.

"We are delighted to receive Orphan Drug Designation for XWL-008 for the treatment of narcolepsy. We continue to be committed to the development of XWL?008 as the potential first-line treatment for this rare and debilitating disorder," said Dr Jia-Ning Xiang, Founder and CEO of XW Labs. "We have recently reached a major m...