Astellas Announces Acquisition of Quethera’s Ophthalmic Gene Therapy Program

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• The agreement involves Astellas to pay an upfront payment of £85Mn to Quethera’s shareholder’s 
• Quethera uses recombinant adeno-associated viral vector system (rAAV) to introduce therapeutic genes into target retinal cells to treat glaucoma
• In pre-clinical models, this gene therapy improved survival rates of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in pre-clinical models

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