AGTC Licenses Promoter Technology to SparingVision SAS
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, announced a licensing agreement that provides its proprietary cone-specific promoter technology to SparingVision SAS, a genomic medicine company developing vision-saving treatments for ocular diseases.
AGTC’s proprietary PR1.7 cone-specific promoter helps drive increased gene expression in cone photoreceptors only, thereby allowing enhanced targeting of gene therapies for indications in which the gene defect is cone-specific and limiting expression of the gene in other cells that could be undesirable.
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