STAT June 4, 2024
Elaine Chen

Good morning. Today, FDA advisers are convening to discuss Lykos Therapeutics’ MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for people with PTSD. It’s a critical meeting — MDMA could be the first Schedule I psychedelic to be deemed to have a medical use. Our reporters Olivia Goldhill and Meghana Keshavan will be live-blogging the meeting all day — tune in here.

The need-to-know this morning

  • It’s a clinical trial readout kind of morning, starting with Viking Therapeutics and its MASH treatment, called VK2809, with mid-stage results.
  • BridgeBio Pharma reported long-term results from a study of its drug called infigratinib for the treatment of achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism.
  • Annexon Biosciences announced the outcome of a Phase 3 study in Guillain-Barré syndrome.

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