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Casebia Counts On Collaboration In Its Climb To Leadership In Gene Therapy

An Interview With CEO Jim Burns

 
• By William Looney

Casebia Therapeutics, a three-year old start-up in the hotly contested gene therapy space, is the product of a remarkably relaxed joint venture between the German multinational giant Bayer and CRISPR Therapeutics, a leader in conducting the first clinical trial involving the CRISPR-Cas9 editing platform. 

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Jim Burns, CEO of Casebia

Rarely has any big pharma-biotech joint venture been so strategic – and so generous – in grafting existing expertise onto a start-up, from the ground up. And Bayer has gained some welcome protection against the distractions of the company’s recent – and controversial – diversification into lines of business beyond patented medicines.

Jim Burns, CEO of Casebia Therapeutics, expects the company’s first Investigational New Drug (IND) filing with the FDA to occur around the second half of 2020, most likely in the autoimmune space for IPEX, a rare mutation of the FOXP3 gene that affects young males

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