Cel­gene shak­en again af­ter the FDA kicks back their mar­ket­ing ap­pli­ca­tion on block­buster hope­ful ozan­i­mod

Cel­gene has been slammed with a refuse-to-file let­ter from the FDA for ozan­i­mod, the biggest late-stage drug it has in the pipeline.

The biotech re­port­ed af­ter the mar­ket closed Tues­day that the RTF came through be­cause the FDA de­ter­mined “that the non­clin­i­cal and clin­i­cal phar­ma­col­o­gy sec­tions in the NDA were in­suf­fi­cient to per­mit a com­plete re­view” for mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis.

That’s go­ing to hurt — bad.

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