With recent news from Sangamo Therapeutics and Krystal Biotech, the count of announced RMAT (“Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy”) designations has risen to 30.
Krystal Biotech received an RMAT designation for its gene therapy KB103 on June 24, 2019. KB103 is being studied for its wound closure capacity in patients with severe generalized recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (“RDEB”). The FDA also granted a RMAT designation for Sangamo Therapeutics’ SB-525, an investigational gene therapy being developed in collaboration with Pfizer to treat severe hemophilia A. SB-525 is the first hemophilia A gene therapy to receive RMAT designation. [Read more…]