USAN drug names under consideration

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USAN Council's statement on the use of USAN as domain names is that a name published by the United States Adopted Names (USAN) Program in the USP Dictionary of USAN and International Nonproprietary Names, and on the United States Adopted Names website shall be the effective equivalent of an intellectual property right for the relevant entities.

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Comments or protests should be addressed to Stephanie Shubat, USAN program director, American Medical Association, 330 North Wabash Ave., Suite 39300, Chicago, Illinois 60611, or via email: [email protected]

In order to ensure your "under consideration" USAN domain name is available, you should consider purchasing the .com, .net and .org domain names of the USAN under consideration. The optimal time to do this is when you receive the letter from the USAN Program informing you of the USAN Council's naming decision.

The following names for the drugs described are "under consideration" by the USAN Council:

May 2026

Amrecibart: Prevention and treatment of thromboembolic diseases

Atebimetinib: Antineoplastic, treatment of solid tumors      

Bocunebart: Treatment of headache, migraine and other conditions that may benefit from the neutralization of PACAP 

Cenvacibart: Prevention and treatment of thromboembolic diseases

Darlifarnib: Treatment of advanced solid tumors

Elisrasib: Antineoplastic, treatment of advanced solid tumors  

Elecoglipron: Treatment of type 2 diabetes and weight management

Giredestrant tartrate: Treatment of cancer

Ifezuntirgene inilparvovec: Treatment of Huntington’s Disease  

Mazorelvimab: Treatment for rabies virus (RABV) infections

Mivocabtagene autoleucel:  Treatment of Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) 

Mosliciguat: Treatment of pulmonary hypertension  

Nexiguran: Treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR)

Nuzefatide: Treatment of patients with EphA2 expressing tumors 

Nuzefatide pevedotin: Treatment of patients with EphA2 expressing tumors

Palacaparib: Treatment of advanced solid tumors

Pivodisgene parvec: Treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)   

Resecabtagene autoleucel: Treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM, or myositis), systemic sclerosis (SSc), and other B cell driven autoimmune diseases

Sasineprocel: Treatment of Parkinson’s disease 

Soclenicant: Treatment of anxiety-, trauma-, and stressor-related disorders

Velaprumig: Treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED, Graves’ ophthalmopathy)

Zamerovimab: Treatment against rabies virus infections

Zeprumetostat: Antineoplastic

Ziclumeran: Treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR)

April 2026

Actinium ac255 ancelvotide guraxetan:  Antineoplastic, Treatment of prostate cancer

Agazisiran: Treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)

Agazisiran sodium: reatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)

Alixorexton: Treatment of narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia

Cafraglutide: Treatment of obesity

Camupepimut: Treatment of Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) or neuroblastoma ras (NRAS) viral oncogene homolog mutated solid tumors

Elecoglipron: Treatment of type 2 diabetes and weight management

Gatuzosiran: Treatment of Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and Chronic alcohol-related liver disease (ALD)

Gatuzosiran sodium: Treatment of Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and Chronic alcohol-related liver disease (ALD)

Iodofalan I 131: Treatment agent for malignant gliomas

Lanifibranor: Treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), also called metabolic dysfunction associated with steatohepatitis (MASH)

Liraltagene autoleucel: Treatment of ovarian cancer

Lysergide: Treatment of anxiety and depression

Lysergide tartrate: Treatment of anxiety and depression

Maridebart: Treatment of obesity

Maridebart cafraglutide: Treatment of obesity

Navlimetostat:  Antineoplastic

Olatansine: Antineoplastic, treatment of folate receptor alfa (Fra) positive tumors

Opugotamig: Antineoplastic, treatment of folate receptor alfa (Fra) positive tumors

Opugotamig olatansine: Antineoplastic, treatment of folate receptor alfa (Fra) positive tumors

Pivicasiran: Treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)   

Surabgene lomparvovec: Treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD, also known as "wet" AMD) and diabetic retinopathy (DR

March 2026

Cagrilintide hydrochloride: Weight management aid

Cliramitug: Treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and transthyretin amyloidosis polyneuropathy (ATTR-PN)

Dapiglutide: Treatment of obesity

Deulumateperone: Treatment of psychosis 

Deulumateperone tosylate: Treatment of psychosis 

Elegrobart: Treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED)

Evarucabgene autoleucel: Treatment of relapsed/refractory AL amyloidosis, with the potential to expand into select immunemediated diseases        

Faldoritinib: Treatment of cancer including Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Florensocatib: Treatment of non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFBE)

Imeroprubart: Treatment of immunoglobulin (Ig)G-mediated autoimmune diseases  

Ixotatug: Antineoplastic        

Ixotatug vedotin: Antineoplastic

Lunsotogene parvec: Treatment of OTOF-related congenital hearing loss due to congenital auditory neuropathy

Napazimone: Treatment of primary mitochondrial disease

Ontunisertib: Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Onvuzosiran: Treatment of hereditary angioedema (HAE)

Onvuzosiran sodium: Treatment of hereditary angioedema (HAE)

Ozureprubart: Treatment of allergic asthma, food allergies, chronic spontaneous urticaria, and other allergic inflammatory diseases

Pegtarazimod: Treatment of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), acute COPD exacerbations, and acute graft vs. host disease

Pegtarazimod hydrochloride: Treatment of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), acute COPD exacerbations, and acute graft vs. host disease

Pevifoscorvir: Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection; Chronic Hepatitis D Infection

Ponometrep: Treatment of migraine, neuropathic pain, and nociceptive pain

Relzasertideg: Treatment of refractory or recurrent Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)       

Remlifanserin: Treatment of schizophrenia and the hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer’s disease psychosis (ADP)

Retogatein: Treatment and prevention of autoimmune diabetes, including type 1 diabetes and latent autoimmune diabetes

Rocavorexant: Treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD)

Sevoloprubart: Treatment of autoimmune disorders

Tersolisib: Treatment of HR+, HER2-breast cancer

Zocilurtatug: Antineoplastic, treatment of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC)

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