The FDA’s once-raging internal debate over Sarepta Therapeutics has cooled, but a recently unearthed document might portend failure for the next company angling to win an approval in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
PTC Therapeutics is seeking approval for its treatment, ataluren, despite the drug’s repeated clinical failures and the FDA’s 2016 refusal to even consider the drug. Approval would seem unlikely, and it looks to be even more of a reach in light of a memo written by Dr. John Jenkins, an FDA official, back in the heat of the Sarepta saga.
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This statement is not true it only says beware of all bio pharma companies not just for ptct fda does not hint in anything here restate
It was always nice to read articles by Adam now not accessible. So awesome of stat to be greedy and help promoters and fraudsters by hiding the truth. These stories were free at the street.