FDA to Ask Sarepta to Halt Elevidys Shipments
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Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT) plunged 26.85% in Friday pre-market after a clinical trial participant died following treatment with a gene therapy, marking the third death linked to the company's experimental treatments.
Following the death of two teenage patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy following Elevidys treatment, Sarepta Therapeutics adds a black box warning to the gene therapy for acute liver injury and failure and parts with more than a third of employees.