How much is your vi­sion worth? Spark CEO Jeff Mar­raz­zo has a price in mind

Just how much is your vi­sion worth?

That’s the bil­lion-dol­lar ques­tion at Spark Ther­a­peu­tics now as the FDA winds up with an odds-on ap­proval for its gene ther­a­py used to fix a rare form of in­her­it­ed blind­ness called RPE65-me­di­at­ed reti­nal dy­s­tro­phy.

It’s ver­boten in bio­phar­ma for CEOs to dis­cuss hard prices ahead of an ap­proval, but Spark $ONCE CEO Jeff Mar­raz­zo has been do­ing the math on the eco­nom­ic val­ue of vi­sion, and came up with a sub­stan­tial 7-fig­ure num­ber: $1 mil­lion-plus for Lux­tur­na.

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