News brief­ing: Bio­gen gets a quick date with an FDA pan­el for con­tro­ver­sial ad­u­canum­ab; Abeona CEO, board mem­bers ex­it — shares im­plode

Mark your cal­en­dars for No­vem­ber 6, which looms as the next ma­jor test for Bio­gen’s ad­u­canum­ab. That’s the day the FDA has set aside for a pan­el re­view of the drug, which will be pre­ced­ed by an in-house re­port on the pros and cons of the con­tro­ver­sial drug.

The big biotech $BI­IB gained steam on the news that the FDA had of­fered a pri­or­i­ty re­view for the Alzheimer’s drug, which suc­ceed­ed in one late-stage study and failed in an­oth­er, on­ly to be res­ur­rect­ed on the ba­sis of some deep dives in­to sub­group da­ta.

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