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FDA lifts holds on Epizyme, Sarepta programs

September 24, 2018 10:32 PM UTC

FDA lifted separate clinical holds on tazemetostat from Epizyme Inc. (NASDAQ:EPZM) and a gene therapy program targeting micro-dystrophin from Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT), the companies said Monday.

Epizyme is reopening enrollment in all of its U.S. tazemetostat trials, in which new enrollment had been paused. FDA placed the partial hold in April following a report of a patient who developed secondary T cell lymphoma during a Phase I pediatric trial. Patients already enrolled who had not experienced disease progression were allowed to continue receiving tazemetostat (see "FDA Places Hold on Epizyme's Tazemetostat")...