Signs Of Long-Term Efficacy Boost UniQure’s Hem B Gene Therapy

Will Await Main Study’s One-Year Milestone Before Submission

Unveiling its latest data, UniQure is tipped to avoid the knockback which affected BioMarin’s hemophilia A gene therapy, with a filing expected in the second half of 2021.

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UniQure expects to file for approval in the second half of 2021.

uniQure has presented promising pivotal data for its gene therapy for hemophilia B, AMT-061, putting it on course for a filing with regulators in the second half of 2021.

The trial’s principal investigator Stephen Pipe of the University of Michigan said patients’ hemophilia B had “thus far” been “transformed into a functionally

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