Bio­gen bags an AAV gene ther­a­py pro­gram from Mass­a­chu­setts Eye and Ear; Biotechs raised $1B-plus in lat­est round of fol­low-ons

→ Bio­gen has picked up a new, pre­clin­i­cal gene ther­a­py pro­gram from Mass­a­chu­setts Eye and Ear for in­her­it­ed reti­nal de­gen­er­a­tion due to mu­ta­tions in the PRPF31 gene, among the most com­mon caus­es for au­to­so­mal dom­i­nant re­tini­tis pig­men­tosa. They’re build­ing on the work of Har­vard’s Er­ic Pierce. “The treat­ment of IRDs with high­ly ef­fec­tive AAV-based gene ther­a­pies is core to Bio­gen’s oph­thal­mol­o­gy strat­e­gy,” said Chris Hen­der­son, the re­search head at Bio­gen. “This agree­ment un­der­scores our com­mit­ment to that strat­e­gy and builds off of our ac­qui­si­tion of Night­star Ther­a­peu­tics in 2019 and our ac­tive clin­i­cal tri­als of gene ther­a­pies for dif­fer­ent ge­net­ic forms of IRD.”

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