Biotech raises $42 million to run Huntington’s disease trial
Gene therapy startup Latus Bio has raised another $42 million to launch its first clinical trials, in which it will try to avoid problems that have set back a more advanced competitor.
Latus is moving two treatments into clinical trials this year. The first involves a form of Batten disease called CLN2 disease, a fatal genetic disorder that causes seizures, vision loss and cognitive problems. The company expects to have initial clinical data by the end of the year.
Now, Latus — founded by Beverly Davidson, director of scientific strategy at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia — is turning its attention to a second drug candidate, a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease.
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