No More Sarepta-Like Development, FDA Officials Say

OND Director Jenkins says Sarepta's Exondys 51 shouldn't be a model, gets an earful from patient advocates.

Sponsors should not strive to repeat the success of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.'s Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment Exondys 51, FDA's Office of New Drugs Director John Jenkins warned.

Jenkins said the Exondys 51 (eteplirsen) development program, which received an accelerated approval from FDA despite opposition from him and...

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