Sarepta, Duchenne and Gene Therapy
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational gene therapy trials for limb girdle muscular dystrophy following three patient deaths potentially linked to the company's treatments.
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Zacks Investment Research on MSNSRPT Down After Third Death in Muscular Dystrophy Gene Therapy ProgramShares of Sarepta Therapeutics SRPT nosedived 35.9% on Friday following the death of a patient dosed with one of its experimental gene therapies. The company confirmed that a 51-year-old, non-ambulant (unable to walk) limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) patient died due to acute liver failure (ALF).
Gene therapy approach developed offers new hope for those with Duchenne muscular dystrophy by restoring the full-length dystrophin protein. Systemic delivery of full-length dystrophin in Duchenne ...
The first gene therapy for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The therapy can be used in 4- and 5-year-olds with the degenerative ...
In the case of Duchenne muscular dystrophy – the topic of this study – patients, all males because the gene is on the X chromosome, begin exhibiting symptoms around age four and usually die ...