There has to be a bet­ter way to han­dle Duchenne drugs; Let's get to the bot­tom of the Juno de­ba­cle

End­points as­sess­es the big bio­phar­ma R&D sto­ries of the week, with a lit­tle added com­men­tary on what they mean for the in­dus­try.

Long af­ter it be­came ap­par­ent that PTC’s Duchenne drug doesn’t work, the EMA’s green light is in­tact

I nev­er un­der­stood why the EMA would sud­den­ly re­verse it­self in 2014 and al­low PTC to sell ataluren as its on­ly ap­proved ther­a­py on the con­ti­nent for Duchenne mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy. And it was even more per­plex­ing to see the Eu­ro­pean reg­u­la­tor come back last year and de­cide to al­low the drug to re­main on the mar­ket as PTC lined up a new late-stage study over an ex­pan­sive 5-year grace pe­ri­od.

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