Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT)

[Joseph_K]

abew4me (and unknown ghosts of the iHub Sarepta message board): Insurance funding for Elevidys has been a stock market issue for Sarepta. My (limited, but I think effective) due diligence in this has been in finding and keeping up with the Facebook page of Little Hercules Foundation. It has, I think, been assiduously following the issue, telling caretakers about both the insurers who have agreed to provide coverage (and any conditions thereon) and those denying coverage (with regard to which it tries to organize pressure campaigns). You'll have to review the entries yourself, but my (neither scientific nor well-organized) survey of them I felt showed that the considerable majority of insurers were providing coverage (per the rather restrictive current FDA label). If you look through those entries and conclude otherwise, please post your thoughts here. Once I did that bit of DD, I upped my investment.

You (abew) also asked about my DD on genomics. I don't remember what I posted. I do believe gene therapy will make many other cures obsolete. (I listen to a lot of science podcasts and read science books and articles some, too.) I think there was a Rett Syndrome genetic therapy in Phase 1, but all I recall doing was calculating how many years before it could possibly receive FDA approval.