The company refused the FDA’s request and will continue shipping its therapy, Elevidys, to Duchenne patients who can still walk. A pause on shipments to older, non-ambulatory patients remains in place.

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,

The Sarepta saga continues, with the FDA slapping a clinical hold across all of the company’s investigational limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) trials, while also revoking the biopharma’s gene therapy platform technology designation.