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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 ...
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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 ...

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 ...

Sarepta Soars After FDA Says Some Patients Can Get Elevidys

In a major win for Sarepta Therapeutics Inc., US regulators are recommending that patients who can walk be allowed to take ...
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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a new Novo Nordisk CEO, an FDA reversal on Sarepta, and more

Novo Nordisk tapped Maziar Mike Doustdar, its head of international operations, as its new chief executive officer and ...

FDA probes death of patient on Sarepta's Elevidys, partner Roche says death unrelated to therapy

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it was investigating the death of an eight-year-old boy who received ...
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Untangling Sarepta’s gene therapy fallout and a growing trust deficit

Over a whirlwind three weeks, Sarepta Therapeutics has faced tough safety questions around its commercial gene therapy ...