Ophthotech sponsors gene therapy research for retinal diseases

Ophthotech has begun a gene therapy research collaboration that will use novel gene therapy technology to discover and develop ocular disease treatments, according to a press release.
The company has entered into sponsored research agreements with the University of Massachusetts Medical School and its Horae Gene Therapy Center to utilize a “minigene” therapy approach and other gene delivery technologies to target retinal diseases, the release said.
“Advances in gene therapy technologies have been promising and may provide transformational, next-generation therapies for

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