Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Vesigen Therapeutics Awarded Grant from Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) to Develop a Targeted Genome Editing Therapeutic Strategy

March 14 2023. Vesigen Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing targeted therapies by engineering a distinct class of human extracellular vesicles called ARMMs (ARrestin-domain 1 Mediated Microvesicles), is pleased to announce receipt of a FARA (Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance) General Research Grant. Vesigen will evaluate its proprietary technology to deliver CRISPR-Cas genome editing complexes as a non-viral disease-modifying strategy for patients diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA).