Best part of the $SRPT conference today. Very well said Chris, even if you hate twitter.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1472151-sarepta-therapeutics-ceo-presents-at-deutsche-bank-dbaccess-health-care-conference-transcript?part=single

Robyn Karnauskas – Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

And then I guess one question and this question I get a lot to, so I guess I get more comments rather than question but alternative to you. Do you wish that when you started talking about accelerated approval you didn’t talk about it as much as aggressively and it was more or like upside surprise for the street or do you think it was necessary in order to get lot of the thought leaders and the patients involved. So how do you think about like how you handle that, was that the right decision or the wrong decision?

Chris Garabedian

Some days, I come in to work in the media and the twitter feeds and the attention that has been brought to this company and to this accelerated approval decision, sometimes creates distractions and I have to answer a lot of phone calls and I have to address questions that are distracting from just the task at hand of drug development.

However, I feel the commitment to do everything in my power to get a drug that I believe is efficacious and safe to the patients that need it. And it's very hard to be committed to that and to express how we are trying to do that and avoid the perception of doing something that some believe us unprecedented or aggressive and we don't believe that, we believe in our drug, we understand the regulations and what the authority of the FDA is.

We believe we are meeting those demands and we hope that FDA does the right thing as it relates to accelerated approval. And that's my job as CEO, I don't want to be the one telling the parents, you know trust me, I know the biotech industry and I know the FDA, so I'm going to decide, we're not even going to try to pursue it and just trust me on this. Guess where their fire is going to be focused? It's going to be on me for being an idiot for not trying to get a drug to them as quickly as possible. So that's why I'm vocal about it and that's why I feel strongly because we believe in the product.

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