Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Apr 2025
Verve Therapeutics receives US FDA fast track designation for VERVE-102, an in vivo base editing medicine targeting PCSK9
11 April 2025 - Verve Therapeutics today announced that the US FDA has granted fast track designation for VERVE-102 for the treatment of patient groups with hyperlipidaemia and high lifetime cardiovascular risk to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
VERVE-102 is the company’s novel, in vivo, investigational base editing medicine designed to be a single-course treatment that permanently turns off the PCSK9 gene in the liver and durably reduces disease-driving low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
