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The funding will be used to support development of RTx-021, an optogenetic therapy for the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA), the advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Under the agreement, Spark secures exclusive worldwide rights to SpliceBio's proprietary Protein Splicing platform to develop, manufacture, and commercialize a gene therapy targeting an undisclosed inherited retinal disease.
Under the terms of the collaboration, AbbVie's extensive capabilities will be paired with Capsida's novel adeno-associated virus (AAV) engineering platform and manufacturing capability to identify and advance three programs.
Under the terms of collaboration agreement, VivaVision and Everads will jointly conduct pre-clinical research activities, in order to identify lead candidates for future clinical development and commercialization.
The partnership aims to apply Avista’s single-cell adeno-associated virus (AAV) engineering (scAAVengr) platform technology to develop intravitreal AAV capsids matching a capsid profile defined by Roche.
The two companies plan to conduct gene corrections in ocular tissues using mCureX's mRNA technology and ToolGen's TGT-101 & CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology for the treatment of rare hereditary eye diseases.
Codiak’s proprietary engEx Platform is designed to enable the development of engineered exosome therapeutics for a wide spectrum of diseases and to manufacture them reproducibly and at scale to pharmaceutical standards.
Proceeds from this financing will support the advancement of Kriya’s pipeline and continued scaling of its engineering, manufacturing, and computational platforms. Kriya has established an ecosystem for delivering best-in-class technologies and medicines in gene therapy.
As part of this collaboration, Intellia will grant SparingVision exclusive rights to Intellia’s proprietary in vivo CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing technology including SPVN50 for up to three ocular targets addressing diseases with significant unmet medical need.
Intergalactic’s non-viral gene therapy deploys two proprietary technologies: 1) C3DNA, covalently closed and circular DNA which relies on a cellfree manufacturing process; and 2) COMET, a clinically advanced, pulsed electric field focal gene therapy delivery system.