Oct. 7 at 5:01 AM
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Sent direct message on his Linkedin page
Mr. Tidmarsh,
On September 29, you issued a statement that had two provable deceptions regarding voclosporin. In doing so, you have almost certainly caused people with LN to potentially turn away from this proven effective treatment, doctors to now have concern about prescribing this effective treatment and about a
$300 million drop in a single company "Aurinia Pharmaceuticals" that has hurt a multitude of investors. You cannot claim this was your personal opinion when you post it on a site that clearly identifies you as the Director for Drug Evaluation and Reasearch, FDA.
Voclosporin was approved as an effective treatment for LN by the very agency you work for. You intentionally singled out one company (likely to your dislike of a Board member). This is unacceptable.
I believe the only remedy is a sincere public apology and complete public retraction of your declaration that voclosporin has shown no clinical benefit to patients.
