PTC Therapeutics Inc.'s plans to appeal a US FDA complete response letter for Translarna (ataluren) could once again make Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Director Janet Woodcock the decision-maker on a Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug that the agency's own clinical reviewers have concluded lacks substantial evidence of efficacy.
On Oct. 25, a day after the user fee goal date for ataluren, PTC announced that FDA's Office of Drug...








