CBER is unanimously against Elevdiys’ return to the market without additional evidence, according to media reports citing an anonymous senior FDA official. Given Elevidys’ full approval, however, experts told BioSpace this path would set up a length legal battle between the regulator and

Sarepta would need to conduct new analyses to validate the safety of Elevidys—which has had U.S. shipments paused by the company over a mounting string of controversies—to the FDA, Endpoints News and Bloomberg separately reported Thursday, citing an unnamed senior FDA official.

Sarepta Therapeutics is pausing shipments of its gene therapy for muscular dystrophy following several patient deaths that have attracted attention from regulators.

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The Sarepta saga continues, with the FDA slapping a clinical hold across all of the company’s investigational limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) trials, while also revoking the biopharma’s gene therapy platform technology designation.

Sarepta Therapeutics suffered another major setback on Friday as Europe's drug regulator decided not to recommend the approval of Elevidys, following mounting regulatory scrutiny and two recent patient deaths linked to the company's gene therapy.

Sarepta faces an “arduous and treacherous path” to try to get its Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy Elevidys back onto the market

After the FDA request, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Sarepta said in a statement that it will continue to ship the therapy to ambulatory people but maintain a halt it implemented June 15 for non-ambulatory patients after reporting to the FDA a case of acute liver failure in a patient who could not walk.