Sarep­ta posts ear­ly, rosy gene ther­a­py da­ta for limb gir­dle mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy — fu­el­ing $165M buy­out of part­ner

Sarep­ta Ther­a­peu­tics $SRPT has re­vealed a promis­ing, ear­ly snap­shot of re­sults for its sec­ond gene ther­a­py pro­gram in pa­tients with a pro­gres­sive mus­cle de­gen­er­a­tive dis­or­der — months af­ter re­port­ing en­cour­ag­ing da­ta for its Duchenne gene ther­a­py, as the com­pa­ny for­ti­fies its sta­tus as a bonafide gene ther­a­py play­er. And the re­sults in­spired a $165 mil­lion buy­out.

On Wednes­day, Sarep­ta di­vulged da­ta from three pa­tients in the first co­hort of an open-la­bel Phase I/II study test­ing the use of an ex­per­i­men­tal gene ther­a­py — MYO-101 — in limb gir­dle mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy (LGMD), a group of rare pro­gres­sive ge­net­ic dis­or­ders char­ac­ter­ized by wast­ing and weak­ness of the vol­un­tary mus­cles of the hip and shoul­der ar­eas (limb-gir­dle area) that have no ap­proved treat­ments.

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