Viridian Therapeutics Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Veligrotug for the Treatment of Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRDN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing potential best-in-class medicines for serious and rare diseases, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to veligrotug (“veli”), the company’s lead anti-insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) drug candidate for the treatment of TED. Breakthrough Therapy D