New partnership for the treatment of Duchenne muscular disease (DMD)
Sarepta Therapeutics, a U.S. commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of unique RNA-targeted therapeutics for the treatment of rare neuromuscular diseases, and Genethon, have signed a gene therapy research collaboration to jointly develop treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
Genethon’s micro-dystrophin gene therapy approach can target the majority of patients with DMD.