Menlo Park biotech buys French company, Annapurna Therapeutics

Silicon Valley Bussiness Journal, Feb 1, 2016, Cromwell Schubarth, TechFlash Editor Silicon Valley Business Journal

Avalanche Biotechnologies has agreed to acquire Paris-based Annapurna Therapeutics in a $105.6 million deal that expands its gene therapy pipeline. The Menlo Park company led by Paul Cleveland said the deal will combine his company's four gene therapy programs for ophthalmic diseases with Annapurna’s gene therapies for Alpha1-antitrypsin (A1AT) deficiency, cardiomyopathy associated with Friedreich’s ataxia, hereditary angioedema, and severe allergies.



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Menlo Park biotech buys French company, Annapurna Therapeutics

Related news (January 5,2016): Annapurna Therapeutics (formerly AAVLife SAS) to Collaborate with Weill Cornell Medicine on Gene-Therapy Portfolio