The Greatest FDA Advisory Committees Of All Time Part IV: Neurology Lays Claim To The Crown
Executive Summary
We look back at another of the greatest FDA advisory committees of the last 20 years. This time: the nearly 12-hour meeting in 2016 on Sarepta’s eteplirsen for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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