Am­i­cus, Penn ex­pand gene ther­a­py re­search agree­ment in­to five-year col­lab­o­ra­tion

Apart from get­ting the FDA to have a change of heart on its Fab­ry dis­ease ther­a­py, Galafold, last year, Am­i­cus Ther­a­peu­tics joined forces with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia to work on gene ther­a­pies for four dif­fer­ent dis­or­ders — Pompe dis­ease, Fab­ry dis­ease, CD­KL5 de­fi­cien­cy and an undis­closed rare meta­bol­ic dis­or­der. On Wednes­day, the two ex­pand­ed their col­lab­o­ra­tion — to in­clude ad­di­tion­al lyso­so­mal dis­or­ders and rare dis­eases.

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