Aduhelm, One Year Later: US FDA’s Credibility, Accelerated Approval Pathway Feel The Bite From Alzheimer’s Drug Approval
Executive Summary
June 7 marks the one-year anniversary of the accelerated approval of Biogen’s aducanumab, an event that still reverberates throughout the drug development community. While the FDA continues to defend the approval, experts say the backlash has caused the agency to become more reluctant to use the expedited pathway. Meanwhile, Alzheimer’s patients find themselves where they were a year ago: without ready access to a disease-modifying therapy.
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