James Wil­son turns to old men­tor for gene ther­a­py star­tup's star-stud­ded $115M launch round

Gene ther­a­pies have long held promise for rare dis­eases — many of which are mono­genic — as an el­e­gant cure that cor­rects the sin­gu­lar un­der­ly­ing ge­net­ic de­fects. The ex­e­cu­tion, though, has been any­thing but el­e­gant, spawn­ing headaches about safe­ty is­sues and de­liv­ery meth­ods.

Penn pro­fes­sor James Wil­son knows the roller coast­er ride all too well. And as the field gains steam fol­low­ing the his­toric ap­proval of the first gene ther­a­py with sev­er­al more lined up at the FDA, he is team­ing up with a rare dis­ease ex­pert and an in­dus­try vet to de­vel­op new ther­a­peu­tics us­ing a tech­nol­o­gy that he’s helped per­fect.

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