Keeping Track: Viltepso Earns Priority Review Voucher; Manufacturing Trips Fennec; Eagle Drops Ryanodex Exertional Heat Stroke Bid

The latest drug development news and highlights from the Pink Sheet’s US FDA Performance Tracker.

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Viltepso for certain DMD patients garnered the PRV for Nippon Shinyaku.

Another approval earned a US rare pediatric disease priority review voucher last week, as the program approaches a possible sunset.

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