Welcome to Clinuvel

We are a global biopharmaceutical company committed to developing drugs for the treatment of a range of severe skin disorders.

Clinuvel’s lead compound, SCENESSE® (afamelanotide), a first-in-class drug targeting erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), has completed Phase II and III trials in the US and Europe. In February 2012 SCENESSE® was filed for review by the European Medicines Agency for EPP. Further trials of SCENESSE® are underway in the pigmentary disorder vitiligo.

Our website has been developed to help share our expertise on the interaction of light and human skin as well as provide a thorough overview of our global drug development programs.

Clinuvel Latest News

JAMA features vitiligo study as cover story

In October 2012 we announced that observations from the CUV102 study of SCENESSE® (afamelanotide 16mg implant) in vitiligo were e-published in the journal Archives of Dermatology. Earlier this month the article was fully published in the re-named JAMA Dermatology, with case study images from CUV102 featured on the cover. You can access the abstract to this article at ...

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Vitiligo Latest News

First positive observations from Clinuvel’s US vitiligo trial

In October 2011 early clinical observations from the company’s open label Phase II pilot trial (CUV102) of the novel drug SCENESSE® (afamelanotide) in patients with nonsegmental vitiligo (NSV) were presented at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) meeting in Lisbon. You can read the full announcement here....

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Clinuvel Blog Posts

Inside Clinuvel: Porphyrins & Porphyrias 2013...

The biennial Porphyrins & Porphyrias conference is the only international meeting of global key opinion leaders on the group of...

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Inside Clinuvel: Rare diseases day 2013 - rare disea...

Today, February 28, marks Rare Disease Day: an annual event to help highlight the effects of rare diseases on individuals, families and the...

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Q&A: SCENESSE® successful in Phase IIa vitiligo...

We've just released the first results from our vitiligo program which you can view online here. Following their release, we expect a number...

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Clinuvel Webcasts

What can vitiligo patients do? – Lee Thomas and Dr ...

Taking on Vitiligo, a depigmentation disorder of the skin. In 2010, Clinuvel ventured into an area of dermatology where no other pharmaceut...

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The future of vitiligo treatment – Lee Thomas and D...

Taking on Vitiligo, a depigmentation disorder of the skin. In 2010, Clinuvel ventured into an area of dermatology where no other pharmaceut...

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Vitiligo trials of SCENESSE® – Lee Thomas and Dr Ph...

Taking on Vitiligo, a depigmentation disorder of the skin. In 2010, Clinuvel ventured into an area of dermatology where no other pharmaceut...

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Clinuvel Spotlight

Company History

The technology behind Clinuvel’s lead drug, SCENESSE® (afamelanotide), has been in research and development since the 1980s when a small team of scientists set out to investigate methods of preventing skin cancer in humans. Clinuvel licensed this technology and has spent over A$20million optimising the chemistry of afamelanotide (the active ingredient in SCENESSE®) an...

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