The list of the top 10 most ex­pen­sive drugs on the plan­et will soon have a new open­ing

The world’s most ex­pen­sive drug — and first gene ther­a­py — will soon be­come ex­tinct.

UniQure an­nounced this morn­ing that it has de­cid­ed not to seek the reau­tho­riza­tion au­thor­i­ty that would have been re­quired to keep this drug on the mar­ket past Oc­to­ber. But af­ter by­pass­ing the FDA as a lost cause and see­ing on­ly one re­port­ed use of the gene ther­a­py in Eu­rope, which pro­vid­ed a con­di­tion­al ap­proval, the com­pa­ny would pre­fer to stick with its new­ly re­fo­cused pipeline plan.

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