Karyopharm shares tank af­ter FDA in­sid­ers slam their case on the ef­fi­ca­cy of a can­cer drug with “sig­nif­i­cant tox­i­c­i­ty”

Karyopharm’s at­tempt to gain an ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proved for se­linex­or as a treat­ment for drug-re­sis­tant cas­es of mul­ti­ple myelo­ma is in se­ri­ous jeop­ardy. And in­vestors know it.

Their stock $KP­TI plum­met­ed 46% as an­a­lysts ab­sorbed a high­ly crit­i­cal as­sess­ment of their drug — an oral XPO1 in­hibitor — ahead of next Tues­day’s ex­pert pan­el re­view.

Giv­en the his­to­ry of the FDA with these kinds of re­views, Tues­day’s as­sess­ment will like­ly be harsh.

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