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Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee

On Thursday, September 28, 2017, the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee (PCNS) met to discuss the proposed use of Translarna (ataluren) by PTC Therapeutics (PTC) for the treatment of dystrophinopathies resulting from nonsense mutations in the dystrophin gene, including nonsense mutation Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (nmDMD). A majority of the Committee, 10 of 11 members, voted that “although it is possible that ataluren may be effective, the data are inconclusive, and more work would be needed to establish whether ataluren is effective.”