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The FDA has placed multiple investigational gene therapy clinical trials on hold, signaling broader platform concerns.
Shipments will halt by close of business Tuesday evening, the company said. Sarepta had initially rejected the agency’s request, which was issued Friday.
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Sarepta Therapeutics laying off dozens in Ohio, won't comply with FDA request to halt therapy
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.
Sarepta Therapeutics’ Duchenne therapy faces ‘arduous’ path back to market, senior FDA official says
Sarepta Therapeutics faces an "arduous path” to try to get its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy back onto the market, a senior FDA official told STAT.
Sarepta would need to conduct new analyses to validate the safety of Elevidys—which has had U.S. shipments paused by the company over a mounting string of controversies—to the FDA, Endpoints News reported Thursday, citing an unnamed senior FDA official.
U.S. regulators asked Sarepta Therapeutics on Friday to voluntarily halt shipments of its Elevidys gene therapy after a muscular dystrophy patient who received a different, experimental treatment died,
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles paused the use of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.’s gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the wake of rising safety concerns about liver toxicity, adding to mounting challenges for the drugmaker.
As the controversy over the safety of Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapies comes to a head, the biotech is standing firm behind its approved Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatment. | As the controversy over the safety of Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapies comes to a head,
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Sarepta Therapeutics stock sinks further Tuesday after halting shipment of bestselling drug Elevidys
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,
The Food and Drug Administration plans to ask Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. to pause shipments of its Elevidys treatment after three deaths were linked to the company’s gene therapies, according to a person familiar with the matter.