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Joining forces to develop gene therapies for multiple life-threatening disorders
SIRION Biotech GmbH, a world leader in viral vector-based gene delivery technologies for gene cell therapy, announced today that it signed a license and collaboration agreement with Sanofi, a global biopharmaceutical company, to develop improved tissue-selective adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors to realize effective gene therapy treatments for disorders affecting major human organs.
AAV vectors are a promising and clinically validated gene delivery platform for the potential treatment of a variety of human diseases. Sanofi, together with SIRION Biotech and Prof. Dirk Grimm, a world-renowned and pioneering scientist in the field of AAV biology and application working at Heidelberg University Hospital (Germany), will combine their proprietary technology platforms to create a next generation of AAV vectors. The goal of this collaboration is to develop new and modified AAV capsids that exhibit a safe product profile with improved specificity and higher gene delivery efficiency.