A lab run a Metropolis College of New York (CUNY) scientist with ties to Cassava Sciences (NASDAQ:SAVA) and its Alzheimer’s candidate simufilam was flagged with a mess of points throughout a September 2022 US FDA inspection.
In that lab, Hoau-Yan Wang and his associates had evaluated samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid from people who had been collaborating in a simufilam trial.
The FDA inspection report, obtained by Science journal, discovered that Wang uncared for to conduct routine calibration of kit to ensure experiments had been correct. Additionally, he uncared for to finish verification experiments to make sure checks had been correct and exact.
As well as, improper statistical checks utilized by Wang “resulted in inaccurate dedication of pattern concentrations.”
The Science article additionally famous that CUNY initially denied the inspectors entry to the lab, solely acquiescing two days later.
The publication of the report is prone to solid further doubt on simufilam trial outcomes.
In an announcement supplied to Science, Cassava (SAVA) said that Wang’s lab is just not concerned in simulfilam’s part 3 program.
The corporate mentioned that as a result of the lab is engaged in exploratory analysis, it isn’t required to be in compliance with FDA Good Laboratory Practices requirements.
“The FDA inspection at CUNY resulted in no materials change to the information generated for our profit by this tutorial analysis lab,” Cassava (SAVA) contended.
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