Freeline Therapeutics to Present FLT180a Data at the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting
LONDON, Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freeline Therapeutics Holdings plc (Nasdaq: FRLN) (the “Company” or “Freeline”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative AAV-mediated gene therapies for patients suffering from inherited systemic debilitating diseases, today announced that data from its long-term follow-up study to its Phase 1/2 B-AMAZE clinical trial of FLT180a for the treatment of hemophilia B will be presented at the 63rd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, being held in Atlanta, Georgia and virtually on Saturday, December 11 through Tuesday, December 14, 2021.
The abstract accepted for presentation is listed below and can be viewed online in the ASH conference program.
ASH Poster Presentation Details
| Title: | Factor IX Expression within the Normal Range Prevents Spontaneous Bleeds Requiring Treatment Following FLT180a Gene Therapy in Patients with Severe Hemophilia B: Long-term Follow-up Study of the B-AMAZE Program | |
| Presenter: | Pratima Chowdary, MD, MRCP, FRCPath, Katharine Dormandy Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, Royal Free Hospital and University College London | |
| Date & Time: | December 13, 2021, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET | |
| Publication #: | 3967 | |
| Session Name: | 801. Gene Therapies: Poster III |
The abstract will also be published in a supplement to the November issue of Blood, an ASH journal, available online.
About Freeline Therapeutics
Freeline is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative adeno-associated virus (“AAV”) vector-mediated systemic gene therapies. The Company is dedicated to improving patient lives through innovative, one-time treatments that provide functional cures for inherited systemic debilitating diseases. Freeline uses its proprietary, rationally designed AAV vector, along with novel promoters and transgenes, to deliver a functional copy of a therapeutic gene into human liver cells, thereby expressing a persistent functional level of the missing or dysfunctional protein into the patient’s bloodstream. The Company’s integrated gene therapy platform includes in-house capabilities in research, clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization. The Company has clinical programs in hemophilia B and Fabry disease, as well as preclinical programs in Gaucher disease Type 1 and hemophilia A. Freeline is headquartered in the UK and has operations in Germany and the US.
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Contact
David S. Arrington
Vice President Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Freeline Therapeutics
david.arrington@freeline.life
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