Roche cuts bait on late-stage study of Huntington's med tominersen, an Ionis import with prior safety flags

Hoping to tackle the absolutely brutal Huntington’s disease, Roche inked a licensing pact with Ionis back in 2017 for a novel antisense therapy targeting a protein implicated in the disease. Now, after riding out earlier safety red flags, Roche is calling a late-stage study quits on a data committee’s orders.