CRISPR Therapeutics AG
CRISPR Therapeutics AG, a gene editing company, focuses on developing gene-based medicines for serious human diseases using its Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) platform. The company's CRISPR/Cas9 is a revolutionary technology for gene editing which is the process of precisely altering specific sequences of genomic DNA. It has a portfolio of therapeutic programs across a range of disease areas, including hemoglobinopathies, CAR T cell therapies, in vivo, and type 1 diabetes, as well as develops investigational CAR T programs, including an autologous, gene-edited CAR T program targeting glypican-3 (GPC3) for the potential treatment of solid tumors. The company's lead product candidate is CASGEVY, an ex vivo CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy for treating patients suffering from transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, severe sickle cell disease (SCD), and hemoglobinopathies in which a patient's hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells are edited to produce high levels of fetal hemoglobin in red blood cells. It also develops CAR T cell therapies, including CTX112 targeting cluster of differentiation 19 (CD19) and CTX131 targeting CD70 for oncology and autoimmune indications; CTX310 and CTX320, in vivo gene editing to address the cardiovascular disease by disrupting the validated targets angiopoietin-like protein 3 and lipoprotein; and CTX211, an allogeneic, gene-edited, hypoimmune stem cell-derived product candidate for the treatment of T1D. It has strategic partnerships with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Nkarta, Inc., and Capsida Biotherapeutics. CRISPR Therapeutics AG was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
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MeiraGTx Holdings plc, a clinical stage genetics medicines company, focusing on developing treatments for patients with serious diseases. The company develops various therapies for ocular diseases, including inherited retinal diseases and large degenerative ocular diseases; neurodegenerative diseases; and xerostomia. It is also developing AAV-AQP1 in Phase 2 trial for radiation-induced grade 2/3 radiation-induced xerostomia, as well as in Phase ½ trial for Sjogren's syndrome; AAV-GAD in Phase 2 trial for Parkinson's disease; AAV-RPE65 in Phase 2 trial for RPE65-associated retinal dystrophy; and AAV-CNGB3 and AAV-CNGA3, which are both in Phase 2 trial for achromatopsia, as well as offers AAV-AIPL1 for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) 4. In addition, the company's products under preclinical development include AAV-RDH12 for retinol dehydrogenase 12 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy; AAV-BBS10 for Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) due to BBS10 mutations; AAV-RetGC for LCA type 1; and AAV-UPF1 for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as well as programs for Alzheimer's disease, and wet and dry neovascular age related macular degeneration. Further, it provides riboswitch platform for the delivery of metabolic peptides; and cell therapies for oncology, autoimmune disease, and long term intractable pain. The company has collaborations with Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine for the research, development, and commercialization of gene therapies for the treatment of inherited retinal disease; and Hologen Limited for the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of AAV-GAD investigational gene therapy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, AAV-BDNF investigational gene therapy for genetic obesity disorders, and other genetic medicines to the central nervous system. MeiraGTx Holdings plc was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.
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