FDA is­n't lift­ing the clin­i­cal hold on Sol­id Bio's Duchenne MD gene ther­a­py just yet — but is there a sil­ver lin­ing?

It may now be close to a year be­fore Sol­id Bio can re­sume hu­man test­ing on its lead gene ther­a­py pro­gram.

The clin­i­cal hold that the FDA slapped on the pro­gram last No­vem­ber in the wake of a se­vere ad­verse event marked the sec­ond such in­ter­rup­tion for the Phase I/II IG­NITE DMD study, which was test­ing SGT-001 in a small co­hort of pa­tients with Duchenne mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy. While Sol­id Bio re­solved the first hold with­in three months, this time around reg­u­la­tors de­mand­ed more da­ta.

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