Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT) Files An 8-K Regulation FD DisclosureItem 7.01.Regulation FD Disclosure.
On June 19, 2018, Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. issued a press release announcing that at its first R&D Day, Jerry Mendell, M.D. presented positive preliminary results from the first three children dosed in the Phase 1/2a gene therapy micro-dystrophin trial to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A copy of the press release and the presentation of Jerry Mendell, M.D. and Louise Rodino-Klapac, Ph.D. are furnished as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.
The information in this report furnished to Item 7.01, including Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2 attached hereto, shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. It may only be incorporated by reference in another filing under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, if such subsequent filing specifically references the information furnished to Item 7.01 of this report.
Item 7.01.Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. ExhibitEX-99.1 2 srpt-ex991_7.htm EX-99.1 srpt-ex991_7.htm Exhibit 99.1 Sarepta Therapeutics Announces that at its First R&D Day,…To view the full exhibit click here
About Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT)
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the discovery and development of ribonucleic acid (RNA)-targeted therapeutics for the treatment of rare, infectious and other diseases. The Company operates in one segment: the development of pharmaceutical products on its own behalf or in collaboration with others. The Company, through its platform technologies, targets a range of diseases and disorders through RNA-targeted mechanisms of action. The Company is also developing therapeutics using its technology for the treatment of drug-resistant bacteria and infectious, rare and other human diseases. The Company’s lead Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) product candidate, Eteplirsen, is an antisense phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO) therapeutic in Phase III clinical development for the treatment of individuals with DMD having an error in the gene coding for dystrophin that is amenable to skipping exon 51.