FDA ad­comm votes unan­i­mous­ly against Reata's po­ten­tial Al­port syn­drome treat­ment

The US FDA’s Car­dio­vas­cu­lar and Re­nal Drugs Ad­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee on Wednes­day vot­ed 13-0 that the agency should not ap­prove Rea­ta Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals’ bar­dox­olone methyl cap­sules as a treat­ment to slow the pro­gres­sion of chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease in those with the rare Al­port syn­drome.

The lop­sided vote fol­lows sim­i­lar com­ments from FDA on Mon­day, which paint­ed an over­whelm­ing­ly neg­a­tive opin­ion on Rea­ta’s $RE­TA po­ten­tial drug, ac­cord­ing to brief­ing doc­u­ments re­leased ahead of to­day’s meet­ing.

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