FDA asks Sarepta to stop shipping gene therapy
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NBC4 WCMH-TV on MSNSarepta Therapeutics lays off 500 employees amid FDA investigation, including 80 in ColumbusSarepta Therapeutics announced it is laying off nearly 500 employees this week, including 80 at its Easton location. According to a mass layoff notice filed with the state, biotech company Sarepta Therapeutics laid off 80 employees Friday in central Ohio.
The regulator had asked Sarepta Therapeutics to halt all shipments of its therapy, Elevidys, after three patients died from liver failure after taking it or a similar treatment.
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.
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.
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