PTC’s Upstaza Takes Gene Therapy Straight To Brain (And US FDA); Translarna To Return Mid-Year

In a year full of regulatory milestones for the firm, PTC Therapeutics hopes to set some approval precedents – and basically hopes its candidates have an easier time of it than they have had before.

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PTC Therapeutics, Inc. sees a year full of regulatory milestones ahead in 2024 following its biologics license application for Upstaza, which could become the first gene therapy delivered directly into deep gray matter of the brain.

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