Adverum Makes Job Cuts To Advance Wet AMD Gene Therapy

Moving On After Last Year's Safety Issues

The California-based biotech is reducing its workforce to help finance a Phase II study of Ixo-vec, its eye gene therapy which has been blighted by safety concerns.

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Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. is the latest gene therapy player to feel the financial pinch but the US firm hopes a major restructuring will safeguard funds to advance its one-time wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) treatment.

The California-based biotech has unveiled restructuring measures which CEO Laurent Fischer said were “intended to enable us to fully support our ADVM-022 development plan and extend our expected cash runway by approximately one year into 2025

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