CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VYGR), a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing treatments for severe neurological diseases today announced additional data presentations at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) taking place May 16-19, 2018, in Chicago, Ill.
Oral Presentation Title: "Rescue of Central and Peripheral Neurological Phenotype in a Mouse Model of Friedreich's Ataxia by Intravenous Delivery of AAV Frataxin with a Novel Capsid" Abstract O672.
Data presented at this year's ASGCT meeting demonstrated in a transgenic mouse model of FA, that one-time, post-symptomatic IV dosing of Voyager's vector composed of a novel AAV capsid and a frataxin transgene durably improved motor function and rescued the FA phenotype based on multiple functional tests of sensory and motor behavior.
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