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FDA Suspends Muscular Dystrophy Drug After 3 Patient Deaths
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational ...
Precision BioSciences Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for PBGENE-DMD for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Precision BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTIL), a clinical stage gene editing company utilizing its novel proprietary ARCUS® ...
Sarepta Therapeutics says it will pause shipments of Duchenne gene therapy
Shipments will halt by close of business Tuesday evening, the company said. Sarepta had initially rejected the agency’s ...
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Roche halts some shipments of Sarepta’s Duchenne gene therapy outside U.S.
Roche is following its partner Sarepta and halting shipments of the Duchenne gene therapy Elevidys in some countries, amid ...
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Duchenne gene therapy halted after three deaths and company u turn
The biotechnology company Sarepta Therapeutics has decided to suspend entirely one of its treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) just days after it refused a request from the US Food and ...
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In surprise reversal, Sarepta Therapeutics says it will pause shipments of Duchenne gene therapy
Sarepta will halt all shipments of Elevidys, its drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients, by Tuesday evening.
Sarepta to pause Elevidys gene therapy shipments in U.S.
Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) said late Monday it will pause all shipments of its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy, ...
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Sarepta’s Wild Week, CDER’s New Leader, FDA Rejections, Manufacturing Billions
Sarepta Therapeutics faces serious FDA action after news broke of a third patient death, the FDA gets a new top drug ...
Sarepta Therapeutics crisis is huge blow to Duchenne families, company
Sarepta rebuffed a call from the Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Sarepta Pauses U.S. Shipments for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Treatment
Sarepta Therapeutics said it has paused all shipments of its Elevidys treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the U.S.