Gene therapy start-up GenSight Biologics Inc. will use its recent €32 million Series A financing to develop its preclinical gene therapies for rare and blinding ophthalmic diseases. The company will develop two therapies: one for Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a degradation of the optic nerve that results from a mitochondrial DNA mutation, and an optogenetic therapy addressing retinitis pigmentosa, among the most common inherited causes of blindness in people below the age of 50.
