LEXEO Therapeutics Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Orphan Drug Designation for LX2006 for the Treatment of Friedreich’s Ataxia

NEW YORK, June 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LEXEO Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation and Orphan Drug designation to LX2006 for the treatment of Friedreich’s ataxia (FA). LX2006 is an IV-administered, adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy encoding the human frataxin gene. The designations granted to LX2006 cover cardiac disease and broader symptoms associated with FA.

LEXEO plans to initiate a Phase I/II clinical trial of LX2006 in patients with cardiomyopathy associated with FA in 2021.