With $110M to add to the bankroll, Gen­er­a­tion Bio sets its sights on en­gi­neer­ing a rev­o­lu­tion in the gene ther­a­py field

Who­ev­er comes out on top of the cur­rent race to gain pi­o­neer­ing ap­provals for new AAV-de­liv­ered gene ther­a­pies will have to look over their shoul­ders to watch the next tech wave form­ing on the hori­zon for gene ther­a­py 2.0.

One of those next-gen play­ers, Gen­er­a­tion Bio, just brought in $110 mil­lion of ven­ture cash to cov­er the cost of the rest of their pre­clin­i­cal jour­ney to­ward some­thing com­plete­ly new in the field. The lat­est round brings the biotech — which now has about 80 staffers — up to $235 mil­lion in to­tal since its in­cep­tion about 3 years ago. That will fu­el the rest of its pre­clin­i­cal stage of de­vel­op­ment as it looks to break in­to hu­man stud­ies in the back half of 2021.

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