Financial Respite For Sangamo As Roche Signs Neurodegeneration Disease Pact

Deal Snapshot: The Swiss major has given Sangamo a cashflow injection in a deal to access two novel technologies to develop treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, including against tau for Alzheimer's.    

Tau Alzheimer's disease
TAU

Who: Roche and Sangamo

What: Roche is licensing Sangamo’s zinc finger epigenetic regulation and AAV capsid delivery technologies to pursue tau and another undisclosed neurology

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