Or­chard dis­creet­ly ax­es li­cense for 'bub­ble boy' gene ther­a­py, de­spite re­cent pos­i­tive long-term da­ta up­date

Less than a month af­ter pub­lish­ing pos­i­tive long-term da­ta for an ex­per­i­men­tal gene ther­a­py, Or­chard Ther­a­peu­tics has qui­et­ly ter­mi­nat­ed its li­cens­ing agree­ment over the pro­gram.

In an 8-K fil­ing to the SEC last Fri­day, Or­chard re­port­ed that it is end­ing the li­cense re­lat­ed to its OTL-101 can­di­date, in de­vel­op­ment to treat adeno­sine deam­i­nase se­vere com­bined im­mun­od­e­fi­cien­cy or ADA-SCID, known col­lo­qui­al­ly as “bub­ble boy syn­drome.” It’s a rare ge­net­ic dis­ease where pa­tients have al­most no im­mune sys­tem what­so­ev­er.

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