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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.
The FDA appears to have won its staring contest with Sarepta over shipments of Elevidys, after the company blinked and agreed to the regulator's request to temporarily suspend shipments of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy.
The company agreed to voluntarily halt shipments of its experimental medicine Elevidys for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Sarepta stock tanked Friday after a new patient death was uncovered, spurring an FDA request to halt shipments of an unrelated drug.
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.