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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 ...
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MAHA minefield: Drug safety regulators trip over Trump whisperer, pharma boosters, agency old guard
Vinay Prasad's interim replacement has concerns about same drug that drove him out. NIH director says employee critics ...
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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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 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 ...