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PTC Therapeutics Announces FDA Acknowledgment of New Drug Application Filing for Translarna™ for the Treatment of Nonsense Mutation Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

March 6, 2017 8:00 AM EST

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., March 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/-- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged the filing over protest of PTC's New Drug Application (NDA) for Translarna (ataluren), an oral, first-in-class, protein restoration therapy for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (nmDMD). The Company is seeking approval to market the drug for the treatment of nmDMD patients in the United States. Translarna received marketing authorization for patients with nmDMD in the European Union in August 2014 and is now... More