BOSTON — The CEO of the drugmaker GSK on Wednesday said the company has had a minimal role in the Food and Drug Administration’s effort to update the prescribing information of a long-shelved drug so that it can be used to treat a condition often associated with autism.

The FDA’s request that the company update the prescribing information for its decades-old therapy leucovorin is “an administrative request,” the CEO, Emma Walmsley, said during a panel discussion at the STAT Summit .

“We have no commercial interest, we have no scientific research, and we’re not pursuing it,” she added. “So it’s just the administration at this stage.”

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