FDA

LogicBio Therapeutics was granted the green light to continue dosing participants in the company’s Phase I/II Sunrise trial investigating the safety of LB-001 in patients with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), characterized by methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MMUT) gene mutations.

Shares of LogicBio Therapeutics fell more than 57 percent on February 2 after the company announced that its gene therapy for pediatric patients with methylmalonic acidemia was placed on clinical hold by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

While the world has largely been focused on the development of vaccines and therapeutics for Covid-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has remained busy lining up potential approvals of medications for other diseases and illnesses.

Shares of LogicBio plunged more than 25 percent after the company disclosed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a clinical hold on the proposed gene therapy treatment for methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).