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Sarepta shares slide again as drugmaker bows to FDA pressure to pause gene therapy
Sarepta Therapeutics is pausing shipments of its gene therapy for muscular dystrophy following several patient deaths that ...
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 ...
Gene therapy maker Sarepta tells FDA it won’t halt shipments despite patient deaths
Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics said it won’t comply with a request from the FDA to halt all shipments of its gene therapy ...
Sarepta falls after gene therapy maker pauses Elevidys shipments in US
Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics fell nearly 7% on Tuesday after the company agreed to comply with the U.S. health regulator's request to pause all shipments of its gene therapy Elevidys in the United ...
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Sarepta Suspends Gene Therapy Shipments After Tragic Deaths
Sarepta Therapeutics has paused U.S. shipments of its gene therapy Elevidys after two teenagers with Duchenne muscular ...
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Sarepta reverses course, halts gene therapy shipments following FDA request
Sarepta will stop shipping its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys following ongoing discussions with the FDA over safety labeling. The drugmaker said the pause, effective July 22, will ...
FDA Places Sarepta's Investigational Gene-Therapy Trials on Hold Following Patient Death
Separately, the FDA on Friday informally requested that Sarepta voluntarily pause shipments of another gene therapy, Elevidys, that is approved to treat a different type of muscular dystrophy and was ...
Sarepta Stock Continues to Fall After Patient Death Linked to Investigational Gene Therapy
Also on Friday, the Food and Drug Administration informally requested that Sarepta voluntarily pause shipments of another gene therapy, Elevidys, which is approved to treat a different type of ...
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Third Death Prompts FDA Action on Sarepta’s Gene Therapy Products
The third death occurred in an adult male with limb girdle muscular dystrophy who received a Sarepta AAVrh74 gene therapy product, SRP-9004, in a phase 4 clinical trial.
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Sarepta to continue shipping gene therapy despite patient deaths
Sarepta Therapeutics said it will continue shipping its gene therapy Elevidys for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients despite an FDA request to pause distribution following multiple patient deaths.
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FDA investigates patient deaths after treatment with Sarepta’s gene ...
In June, Sarepta reported a second death in a patient who had received its gene therapy, which raised concerns about the safety and future demand for the treatment.