Am­i­cus CEO Crow­ley bags a gene ther­a­py com­pa­ny, a new pipeline — and a great pho­to op — for $100M in cash

Am­i­cus CEO John Crow­ley has struck a deal to buy up a port­fo­lio of gene ther­a­pies for an ex­treme­ly rare dis­ease — bag­ging a small biotech for $100 mil­lion in cash plus hun­dreds of mil­lions in mile­stones. And it in­cludes some great op­tics.

Crow­ley, who’s been fond of high­light­ing a biotech ca­reer in­spired by a daugh­ter af­flict­ed with Pompe dis­ease, is ac­quir­ing a com­pa­ny launched by Hol­ly­wood pro­duc­er Gor­don Gray and his wife, Kris­ten, whose own daugh­ters suf­fer from Bat­ten dis­ease.

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