Did the FDA just leave the door cracked open for PTC’s Duchenne drug af­ter re­peat­ed slap­downs?

At first glance, you might con­clude that the FDA had sim­ply done what it al­ways does with PTC’s un­end­ing bat­tle to gain a green light in the US for ataluren: slapped them down.

This time, though, the biotech $PTCT says that reg­u­la­tors are point­ing them down a po­ten­tial ac­cel­er­at­ed path­way that could lead to an ap­proval. And that would mark a step for­ward for a com­pa­ny that has record­ed noth­ing but fail­ure for this drug in the clin­ic over the years.

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