Ep. 185 - Leqembi's Launch, Biotech IPOs, Sarepta Approval

BioCentury This Week

Full approval of Leqembi lecanemab-irmb will unlock reimbursement and energize Alzheimer’s R&D, but the launch will be slow, said BioCentury Washington Editor Steve Usdin on the latest BioCentury This Week podcast. Usdin and colleagues break down the takeaways from BioCentury’s interview with Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Biogen, and discuss the challenges of launching a product for a disease that has until now been untreatable.
BioCentury’s editors also discussed the prospects for the IPO window in the second half now that the market for follow-on financings is showing signs of life, and the controversy surrounding Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec, the gene therapy from Sarepta Therapeutics for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that Usdin argued in an Editor’s Commentary shows flaws in evidence generation and regulatory processes.

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2023-07-10 25 min 3 chapters

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