GBT Bucks Gene Therapy Trend With Sanofi Sickle Cell Deal

Pact Could Be Worth $353m

Building on Oxbryta, which is already approved in the US for the rare blood disorder, Global Blood Therapeutics has licensed two sickle cell disease programs from Sanofi.

Sickle cell anemia, 3D illustration showing blood vessel with normal and deformated crescent-like red blood cells
300,000 people around the world are born with SCD each year • Source: Shutterstock

While a number of companies are pursuing genetic approaches to cure sickle cell disease, Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc., which has one of the two drugs approved for the hereditary blood disorder in Oxbryta, is focusing on improving treatment and has bagged two early-stage programs from Sanofi.

The US biotech has entered into an agreement with the French drugmaker to exclusively in-license worldwide rights to the SCD...

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