US FDA Decides Against Zolgensma Data Integrity Penalties As Novartis Bureaucratizes AveXis

Company’s promise to be more forthright, along with quality culture and policy upgrades, may have helped sway agency.

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No penalties from fda for doctored mouse data • Source: Understanding Animal Research

Novartis AG will not face any penalties for data integrity lapses in certain potency studies for its AveXis Inc. unit’s Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xioi) gene therapy that the US Food and Drug Administration investigated last year, the agency has decided.

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