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Sanofi-Backed Voyager Therapeutics Hails Gene Therapy's Arrival

 
• By Lubna Ahmed

Emerging Company Profile: With a pipeline of products for neurological diseases and a collaboration with Sanofi's Genzyme, Voyager Therapeutics is confident that its 'one-shot' gene therapy could be the answer to treating serious diseases of the brain. CEO Steven Paul shares development and funding plans and hopes to make Voyager's gene therapies the answer to neurological maladies.

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After many starts and stops, US-based Voyager Therapeutics Inc.'s CEO Steven Paul believes gene therapy is finally here.

With a focus on neurological diseases and an ongoing collaboration with Sanofi's Genzyme Corp

Voyager Therapeutics

Location: Cambridge, MA, Boston

R&D Focus: Gene therapy company focused on the central nervous system

Disease Area: Fatal diseases of the brain and spinal cord

Founders: Krystof Bankiewicz, Guangping

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