Af­ter be­ing spurned at the FDA, PTC buys a con­tro­ver­sial Duchenne MD ther­a­py from Marathon

Af­ter be­ing stung by a fierce back­lash over its plans to sell a cheap, old steroid for Duchenne mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy for $89,000 a year, Marathon Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals is get­ting out. The com­pa­ny an­nounced this morn­ing that it is sell­ing de­flaza­cort (Em­flaza) to Duchenne MD play­er PTC Ther­a­peu­tics $PTCT, which has been strug­gling to get the FDA to pro­vide a se­ri­ous re­view for its own failed drug.

Marathon is get­ting $140 mil­lion in cash and stock in the deal, along with a shot at a one-time $50 mil­lion sales bonus on the ta­ble and a roy­al­ty stream that will ac­count for a low-to-mid 20s per­cent­age of the rev­enue.

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