Sarepta Faces Setback as Third Patient Dies in Gene Therapy Trials
Sarepta Therapeutics, a leading biotechnology company, has reported a third patient death related to its gene therapy programs, raising concerns about the safety of its treatments and potentially impacting the company's future direction.A 51-year-old man participating in a Phase I study for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) died in June after receiving Sarepta's investigational gene therapy SRP-9004. The cause of death was acute liver failure, the same complication responsible for two previous fatalities linked to Sarepta's Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatment, Elevidys.