Zol­gens­ma did­n't cause an in­fant death, AveX­is ex­ecs say as they spot­light long-term da­ta

Be­fore the re­cent da­ta ma­nip­u­la­tion scan­dal en­gulfed No­var­tis’ star gene ther­a­py Zol­gens­ma, the death of an in­fant in one of their Phase III tri­als threat­ened to sound safe­ty alarms about the spinal mus­cu­lar at­ro­phy treat­ment. But sci­en­tists at the AveX­is sub­sidiary now say an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has cleared that par­tic­u­lar wor­ry.

Nes­tled in a lengthy pre­sen­ta­tion of up­beat da­ta, the up­date of­fers some much-need­ed val­i­da­tion for Zol­gens­ma as ex­ecs scram­ble to re­build their cred­i­bil­i­ty with both reg­u­la­tors and the gen­er­al pub­lic.

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