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Brand-name prescription medicine

Aqvesme

Generic name: Mitapivat

FDA application holder: Agios Pharms Inc

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Quick answers

What is Aqvesme?
Aqvesme is a brand name of Mitapivat, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Aqvesme product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Aqvesme?
Agios Pharms Inc holds the FDA application for Aqvesme (NDA216196, approved February 17, 2022).
Is there a generic or store brand of Aqvesme?
Other products of Mitapivat are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Aqvesme product.
Has Aqvesme been recalled?
No recall linked to Aqvesme products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Aqvesme is

Each Aqvesme product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Mitapivat · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
mitapivat 100 mg
tablet, film coated (oral)
Aqvesme None listed DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Mitapivat →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Aqvesme products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA216196Agios Pharms IncFebruary 17, 20221

Companies that list Aqvesme

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Aqvesme products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Aqvesme products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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