Biotech tar­get­ing rare heart mu­ta­tion with gene ther­a­py scores $11M in Se­ries A haul

While car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease is the lead­ing cause of death glob­al­ly — it is can­cer that has ben­e­fit­ed most from strides in pre­ci­sion med­i­cine. Now that car­dio­vas­cu­lar-spe­cif­ic ge­net­ic mu­ta­tions are be­ing dis­cov­ered — they are prime tar­gets for ge­net­ic ther­a­py. A biotech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny carved out of re­search con­duct­ed at Tem­ple Uni­ver­si­ty is fo­cus­ing on a mu­tant gene that is un­der­stood to cause a rare heart con­di­tion, which can even­tu­al­ly lead to a heart trans­plant or the use of im­plant­ed car­diac as­sist de­vices.

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