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Gene Therapy

Pfizer invests in gene therapy firm Homology

by Michael McCoy
November 14, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 44

 

Pfizer will pay $60 million for a stake in Homology Medicines, a Bedford, Massachusetts–based firm developing HMI-102, a gene therapy for adults with the metabolic disease phenylketonuria. Homology delivers genes with a suite of adeno-associated virus vectors derived from human hematopoietic stem cellsthat it says are taken up by the body more readily than traditional vectors.

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