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Editas Medicine Announces Third Quarter 2023 Results and Business Updates
Company to provide a clinical update on the EDIT-301 RUBY trial for SCD and EdiTHAL trial for TDT in December at the American Society of Hematology (ASH)
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[{"type":"text","content":"Company to provide a clinical update on the EDIT-301 RUBY trial for SCD and EdiTHAL trial for TDT in December at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and in a Company-sponsored webinar Granted Vor Bio a non-exclusive license for Cas9 patents for ex vivo HSC therapies for the treatment and prevention of hematological malignancies Strengthened Executive Team with appointment of Caren Deardorf as the Company's first Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Editas Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDIT), a clinical-stage genome editing company, today reported financial results for the third quarter 2023 and provided business updates. “We made significant progress advancing EDIT-301 in the third quarter, continuing to enroll and dose patients, and advancing the program towards a BLA filing. We believe EDIT-301 has the potential to be a clinically differentiated, one-time, durable medicine that can provide life changing clinical benefits to patients with sickle cell disease or beta thalassemia, specifically driving early and robust correction of anemia and sustained increases in fetal hemoglobin, and we look forward to sharing clinical data from RUBY and EdiTHAL at ASH and in a Company-sponsored webinar next month,” commented Gilmore O’Neill, M.B., M.M.Sc., President and Chief Executive Officer, Editas Medicine. “I’m also excited to welcome our new Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer, Caren Deardorf, to the Editas leadership team, where she will leverage her experience in successful product launches to build and lead Editas Medicine’s commercial organization, strategy, and execution to support all launch, commercialization, and lifecycle management activities of the Company’s current and future pipeline of products.” Recent Achievements and Outlook Ex Vivo Hemoglobinopathies EDIT-301 Clinical Data Update The Company will share clinical data updates from the RUBY trial for severe sickle cell disease (SCD) and the EdiTHAL trial for transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT) in a Company-sponsored webinar and in a poster at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting on Monday, December 11. EDIT-301 for Sickle Cell Disease The Company continues to enroll and dose patients in the RUBY trial for SCD.In October, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Rege...