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Sarepta Shares Drop as FDA Suspends Gene Therapy Trials for Muscular Dystrophy
Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SRPT) plunged 10% after the company disclosed that the U.S. Food and Drug ...
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Sarepta LGMD trials all hit by FDA hold amid newly surfaced safety concerns over gene therapy
The Sarepta saga continues, with the FDA slapping a clinical hold across all of the company’s investigational limb-girdle ...
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Sarepta stands behind Elevidys after FDA requests gene therapy be pulled from market
As the controversy over the safety of Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapies comes to a head, the biotech is standing firm ...
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Sarepta gene therapy deaths highlight tragic rare disease dilemma
Regulators block Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment after fatal side-effects outweigh questionable efficacy ...
FDA Places Sarepta's Investigational Gene-Therapy Trials on Hold Following Patient Death
Separately, the FDA on Friday informally requested that Sarepta voluntarily pause shipments of another gene therapy, Elevidys, that is approved to treat a different type of muscular dystrophy and was ...
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5 questions on Sarepta, the FDA and a Duchenne gene therapy crisis
While Sarepta has now consented to the FDA’s request to stop selling Elevidys, the company’s brief standoff with the agency ...
Sarepta's Shocking Stand: Company Rejects FDA Request To Pull Gene Therapy Elevidys
The ground shook for Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT) last week as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ...
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Vinay Prasad's exit signals FDA's probable slip toward more permissive regulation of cell and gene therapy: analyst
But this time, the unknown is hitting the industry in a different way from when Prasad was tapped to lead CBER less than ...
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Sarepta refuses to pull gene therapy despite FDA request
Sarepta Therapeutics is refusing to pull its gene therapy Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec), despite a request from the FDA.
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Drugmaker Refuses FDA's Request to Pull Gene Therapy Tied to Patient Deaths
The agency also revoked Sarepta's platform technology designation for AAVrh74 Friday and issued a safety communication saying ...
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Sarepta share price drops again after third gene therapy death
Sarepta Therapeutics’ share price has fallen again following the death of a third patient dosed with its gene therapy treatment. A 51-year-old man with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) type 2D/R3 ...
FDA asks Sarepta to stop shipping Duchenne gene therapy
The company refused the FDA’s request and will continue shipping its therapy, Elevidys, to Duchenne patients who can still ...