Prevail Therapeutics Receives U.S. FDA Fast Track Designation for PR006 to Slow the Progression of Frontotemporal Dementia with a GRN Mutation - Seite 2
About Prevail Therapeutics
Prevail is a gene therapy company leveraging breakthroughs in human genetics with the goal of developing and commercializing disease-modifying AAV-based gene therapies for patients with
neurodegenerative diseases. The company is developing PR006 for patients with frontotemporal dementia with a GRN mutation (FTD-GRN); PR001 for patients with Parkinson’s disease
with a GBA1 mutation (PD-GBA) and neuronopathic Gaucher disease; and PR004 for patients with certain synucleinopathies.
Prevail was founded by Dr. Asa Abeliovich in 2017, through a collaborative effort with The Silverstein Foundation for Parkinson’s with GBA and OrbiMed, and is headquartered in New York, NY.
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