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Woodcock's 'Bias' In Sarepta Case Made Jenkins Worry About Future Drug Reviews

 
• By Derrick Gingery

In memo to then-Commissioner Califf during review of Sarepta's Exondys 51, Jenkins wrote that he was concerned about leaving OND in hands of CDER director upon his retirement.

John Jenkins made several shocking comments about Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director Janet Woodcock's behavior in the run up to the controversial approval of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.'s Exondys 51, including that he worried about leaving the Office of New Drugs in her hands upon his retirement.

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