Complete Response Letter from the FDA for RP1 Biologics License Application for the Treatment of Advanced Melanoma
“It is deeply disappointing that the FDA has not exercised regulatory flexibility to meet patients’ needs given the data supporting strong efficacy and the favorable safety profile. Approximately 8,500 Americans with advanced melanoma die every year. The country’s foremost melanoma specialists stood behind the RP1 data. Patients and caregivers pleaded for urgency. All of it was met with inconsistent communication and a fragmented and slow-moving regulatory process which clearly puts U.S. innovation at risk,” said Sushil Patel, Ph.D., CEO of Replimune. “As we previously communicated, without timely accelerated approval, the development of RP1 will not be viable. We are devastated for our committed employees who have worked tirelessly for patients but at this point we have no choice but to eliminate jobs, including substantially scaling back our U.S. based manufacturing operations. A treatment desperately needed by patients will not be available. Not because the medicine failed. Because the system did.”
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