Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Apr 2019
uniQure receives FDA fast track designation for AMT-130 gene therapy for the treatment of Huntington’s disease
8 April 2019 - On track to treat first patient in Phase I/II study of AMT-130 in 2H19.
uniQure today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted fast track designation for AMT-130, the Company’s gene therapy candidate for the treatment of Huntington’s disease.
AMT-130 comprises a recombinant AAV5 vector carrying a DNA cassette encoding a microRNA that non-selectively lowers or knocks-down human huntingtin protein in Huntington’s disease patients. AMT-130 also is unique in that it targets the highly toxic exon1 protein fragment that is even more toxic than the mutant huntingtin protein.
