Small Biotech Firms That Can Become Top-Tier Biotech Giants We Start With... Abeona Therapeutics Abeona Therapeutics (ABEO) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical gene and cell therapy company. In September 2016 Abeona acquired an exclusive worldwide license of a next-generation gene therapy AAV capsid portfolio from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The AIM™ vector system . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe …

RegenxBio (RGNX) has granted Abeona Therapeutics (ABEO) an exclusive worldwide license to its NAV AAV9 viral vector (subject to certain non-exclusive rights previously granted for MPS IIIA) for the treatment of four diseases: Sanfilippo syndrome type A (MPS IIIA) and type B (MPS IIIB), Infantile Batten Disease, also known as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 1 (CLN1 Disease) and Juvenile Batten Disease, also known as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 3 …

Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO) announced that it will present nonclinical data at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) which demonstrate the potential for PEGPH20, Halozyme's pegylated recombinant human hyaluronidase, to increase the infiltration of immune cells into the tumor microenvironment and enhance the efficacy of immuno-oncology drugs in an HA-accumulating murine colon tumor model. The study shows that degradation of hyaluronan (HA) …