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FDA’s Prasad Exits Following Political Backlash Over Sarepta
Vinay Prasad, a top regulator at the US Food and Drug Administration, has left the agency after a controversy over his ...
Sarepta Soars After FDA Says Some Patients Can Get Elevidys
Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. shares rose sharply early Tuesday after US regulators reversed course and recommended that patients ...
Sarepta says it won't comply with FDA request to stop shipping gene therapy Elevidys
U.S. regulators asked Sarepta Therapeutics on Friday to voluntarily halt shipments of its Elevidys gene therapy after a ...
Sarepta will resume gene therapy shipments after FDA review of recent patient death
Shares of drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics surged in afterhours trading Monday after the company said it would resume shipping ...
Gene therapy maker Sarepta tells FDA it won’t halt shipments despite patient deaths
Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics says it won’t comply with a request from U.S. regulators to halt all shipments of its gene ...
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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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StockWatch: As Prasad Exits FDA, Analysts See Benefit for Sarepta, CGT Stocks
Rare disease and gene therapy stocks, battered in recent months by clinical and commercial setbacks, will likely benefit from the sudden departure this past week of Vinayak (Vinay) Prasad, MD, as ...
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Vinay Prasad departs FDA amid conservative criticism, controversy over Sarepta gene therapy
Vinay Prasad, M.D., has left the FDA less than three months into the role as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation ...
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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 ...
Sarepta finally gets some good news: A patient death wasn’t its DMD drug’s fault.
Sarepta Therapeutics’ stock was soaring Tuesday after the FDA recommended lifting the pause on the company’s Duchenne ...
InnovationRx: Sarepta Blinks In Showdown With FDA
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Moderna’s use of quantum computers, a new top drug regulator at the FDA, ...
FDA Probes Death Of 8-Year-Old Who Received Sarepta's Elevidys
FDA probes Elevidys after an 8-year-old's death in Brazil; Sarepta and Roche say the death was unrelated to gene therapy ...