Io­n­is, Akcea just got hand­ed a one-way tick­et to the end of the reg­u­la­to­ry line as the FDA re­jects volane­sors­en

Io­n­is $IONS and its sis­ter or­ga­ni­za­tion at Akcea have just been slammed with an un­ex­pect­ed re­jec­tion of volane­sors­en, their drug for reg­u­lat­ing plas­ma triglyc­eride for pa­tients with rare cas­es of fa­mil­ial chy­lomi­crone­mia syn­drome.

What hap­pened?

Sim­ply put, we don’t know. All Io­n­is and Akcea $AK­CA did was put out a state­ment re­peat­ing some of their ear­li­er talk­ing points in fa­vor of the drug, which man­aged to pass muster at the ex­pert pan­el meet­ing that was called to re­view it. They didn’t say why the drug was re­ject­ed or what they have to do to win reg­u­la­tors over.

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