Sarepta Therapeutics, FDA and Brazil
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Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT), the leader in precision genetic medicine for rare diseases, today issued the following statement:
CBER is unanimously against Elevdiys’ return to the market without additional evidence, according to media reports citing an anonymous senior FDA official. Given Elevidys’ full approval, however, experts told BioSpace this path would set up a length legal battle between the regulator and
Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) stock drops as the company faces potential FDA-mandated studies after safety concerns over its gene therapy, Elevidys. Read more here.
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After the FDA request, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Sarepta said in a statement that it will continue to ship the therapy to ambulatory people but maintain a halt it implemented June 15 for non-ambulatory patients after reporting to the FDA a case of acute liver failure in a patient who could not walk.
The European Union’s health regulatory agency did not endorse approving Elevidys for ambulatory patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
For Sarepta, the hits keep coming, with several downgrades in the past week after it was forced to temporarily take its top-selling drug off the market.
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Sarepta Therapeutics' (SRPT) stock continued to sink Tuesday following a rough end to last week, including a previously unreported patient death in a clinical trial of an unnamed therapy and the threat of the FDA taking a different therapy,
Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. announced that the company plans to temporarily pause all shipments of its gene therapy to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Elevidys, in a reversal of its prior stance.