TS-000438 — Gene therapy experts at Nationwide Children’s have developed an AAV-mediated CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing method for the correction of exon dup
lications in patients with DMD (Du
chenne muscular dystrophy). This therapy has the potential to permanently corrects DMD by stopping and potentially reversing the progression of muscle wasting and fibrosis in affected individuals. Currently about 11% of DMD cases are caused by exon dup
lications and our experts plan to use this invention to correct for this underlying cause within muscle tissues.