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Chroma Medicine Presents Data Showing Specific and Durable HBV Silencing with Epigenetic Editors at the HBV International Meeting 2023
Boston, MA, September 20, 2023 – Chroma Medicine, Inc., (Chroma) a genomic medicine company pioneering single-dose epigenetic editing therapeutics, today presented positive preclinical data demonstrating the potential of its epigenetic editors to produce efficacious, specific, and durable silencing of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) during the HBV International Meeting 2023, held September 19-23 in Kobe, Japan. Chronic hepatitis B is incurable, increases the risk of developing liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer, and impacts nearly 300 million people worldwide, accounting for more than 800,000 deaths per year. Antiviral therapy can suppress viral replication, but requires lifelong dosing and few patients achieve…
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Sangamo Therapeutics and Chroma Medicine Announce Option and License Agreement To Evaluate and Develop Zinc Finger Proteins for Epigenetic Editing
Brisbane, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, JULY 20, 2023 – Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO), a clinical-stage genomic medicine company and Chroma Medicine, Inc. (Chroma) a genomic medicine company pioneering single-dose epigenetic editing therapeutics, today announced they have entered into a research evaluation, option and license agreement to develop epigenetic medicines leveraging zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) for sequence-specific DNA recognition. Over the course of two decades, Sangamo has built and validated the world’s largest library of ZFPs, deploying them to address numerous therapeutically relevant targets.  Advancing the transformative potential of epigenetic editing, Chroma is expanding the versatility of its platform by…