Comments on: Applied Genetic Technologies gets $2M for gene therapy

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By: VentureBeat » Ceregene draws more than $50M for gene therapy

VentureBeat » Ceregene draws more than $50M for gene therapy — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:47:13 +0000

[...] other irons in the gene-therapy fire as well; today, Applied Genetic Technologies announced that it received $2 million from the big biotech as a milestone payment for its development of a gene therapy for a particular form of [...]

By: David Hamilton

David Hamilton — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:52:53 +0000

It is interesting, although of course the up-and-down history of gene therapy suggests that this sort of technology has to be viewed with a lot of caution. I totally agree about the AGTC Web site -- it's obnoxious. Genzyme appears to be increasingly interested in gene therapy. I missed an item from Friday in which they invested a fairly large sum in Ceregene, the Cell Genesys gene-therapy spinoff. I'll post a link here when I get the item up in a bit. UPDATE: The Ceregene-Genzyme item is up here.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:52:28 +0000

Great work being done and Genzyme was smart to pick it up.

PS: How I deplore websites that resize my browser window. Yes, agtc… I’m talking to you!