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Sarepta Refines Strategy and Updates ELEVIDYS Gene Therapy Label Amid FDA Engagement

Sarepta revamps strategy and updates ELEVIDYS label with FDA, focusing on liver safety and rare disease innovation through siRNA platform.

Author: Towards Healthcare Published Date: 21 July 2025
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Sarepta's Strategic Plans and Upgradation in the ELEVIDYS Label

Sarepta updates ELEVIDYS gene therapy label following FDA discussions

Sarepta Therapeutics Inc., after achieving major milestones in the precision genetic medicine for rare diseases, is now planning to elevate its business by reshaping its strategic plans that will be fueling programs to achieve 2027 financial obligations and support/stabilize its financial status in the long run. The plans will help to maintain the sustainability growth of the company, further focusing on recent and mid-term opportunities from the advanced siRNA platform. These remarkable changes will increase sustainable profit and utilize the company’s potential at best by dedicating the efforts to advance innovative medicines for individuals suffering from rare genetic diseases.

Along with the restricting plan company announced the upgradation of few activities that is underway for ELEVIDYS (delandistrogene moxeparvovec). This is a first approved gene therapy for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment. The company also submitted preliminary financial results for the 30th June 2025, quarter end.

Update on ELEVIDYS Label

Considering the previous decisions for strengthening the profile’s safety of ELEVIDYS, Sarepta is now focusing on a running engagement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ELEVIDYS label. Given the consistency with other AAV-gene therapies, the FDA requested to add a black box warning for acute liver failure (ALF) and acute liver injury (ALI). To the request, Sarepta agreed and solved the issue with the ambulant concern of the ELEVIDYS label. Recently, Sarepta has paused the delivery of ELEVIDYS for the non-ambulant portion.

The company has discovered additional prophylactic immunosuppression. Further, Sarepta has considered an expert group of hepatologists, neuromuscular specialists, immunologists, and hematologists to review the ALF cases and discover additional immunosuppression regimens. The committee gathered to review the same. Sarepta will submit the study to experts and the offered protocol to the FDA and will discuss the proposal’s structure as well.

Views and Statements

Chief executive officer at Sarepta Therapeutics, Doug Ingram, said, “After facing certain environmental changes, we have planned to make decisions towards strategy implementation to maintain Sarepta’s finances, vibrancy, and patient-centric motive towards enhancing and improving the lives of rare genetic diseases.” Further, “these current changes will strengthen our finances and profit with the help of the well-polished strategy. We will continue to accelerate three PMOs and ELEVIDYS performance to serve the Duchenne community. With our strong financial base, we will advance and improve focus toward the programs for rare genetic diseases, especially those that depend on the siRNA platform.”

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