FDA Will Ask Sarepta to Halt Gene Therapy Shipments
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The regulator had asked Sarepta Therapeutics to halt all shipments of its therapy, Elevidys, after three patients died from liver failure after taking it or a similar treatment.
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT), the leader in precision genetic medicine for rare diseases, today issued the following statement:
As mothers of children with this disease, we have wept helplessly in recent months as friends — fellow members of a club we never asked to join — said goodbye to their sons, the babies they once held in their arms, whose dreams they held in their hearts until Duchenne robbed them of working muscles or a healthy future.