Editas Medicine granted FDA regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation for EDIT-301 for the treatment of severe sickle cell disease

Editas Medicine

16 October 2023 - Editas Medicine today announced that the US FDA granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation to EDIT-301, an investigational, gene editing medicine, for the treatment of severe sickle cell disease.

The FDA previously granted orphan drug designation and rare paediatric disease designation to EDIT-301 for the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia.

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