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SparingVision Raises €44.5m For Mutation-Agnostic Eye Gene Therapy

French Biotech Tackling Retinitis Pigmentosa

 
• By Kevin Grogan

A long-term, patient-centric group of investors is backing SparingVision's bid to develop a gene therapy treatment for retinitis pigmentosa that could be effective regardless of mutation.

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RP is one of the most common inherited retinal diseases • Source: Archive

French ocular disease specialist SparingVision has completed a €44.5m financing to help advance its gene therapy approach to tackling retinitis pigmentosa (RP), one of the most common inherited retinal diseases that affects two million patients worldwide.

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