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Gene therapy start-up Freeline Therapeutics raises $116 million

by Ryan Cross
June 24, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 26

A photo of the Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult manufacturing facility.
Credit: Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult
Freeline partnered with the U.K.'s Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult to manufacture its AAV-based gene therapies.

The U.K-. and Germany-based gene therapy start-up Freeline Therapeutics has raised $116 million in series B financing, most of it coming from British life sciences investment company Syncona. Freeline will use the money to develop adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies for hemophilia B, caused by a deficiency in clotting factor IX, and for Fabry disease, caused by a deficiency of a lipid-metabolizing enzyme. Gene therapy clinical trials for those diseases are already under way at competitors Spark Therapeutics and Avrobio.

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