With Sarepta’s Vyondys, US FDA Staff Saw Opportunity To Right Perceived Wrongs With Exondys
Executive Summary
ODE I director Ellis Unger chafed at the notion of approving the Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug golodirsen on the same unvalidated surrogate marker, this time in the face of infection and renal toxicity concerns; OND’s Peter Stein granted Sarepta’s appeal while also calling attention to the company’s failure to timely conduct the eteplirsen confirmatory trial.
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