Fulcrum Therapeutics plunges 55% on clinical hold for sickle cell treatments
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- Fulcrum Therapeutics (NASDAQ:FULC) has plummeted 55% in Friday premarket trading after the US FDA placed a full clinical hold on its Investigational New Drug application for sickle cell disease treatment FTX-6058.
- The hold is due to previouslhy reported preclinical data. As a result of the hold, dosing in a phase 1b trial has been suspended.
- Fulcrum CEO Robert Gould said that the FDA's questions relate "to modulation of the PRC2 complex and the preclinical data."
- Seeking Alpha contributor Stephen Ayers recently rated Fulcrum (FULC) a hold.