Eli Lilly is acquiring Beam Therapeutics’ opt-in rights to three Verve Therapeutics gene-editing therapies for cardiovascular conditions. The deal comes four months after the pharmaceutical giant began a partnership on a preclinical Verve gene-editing therapy for a different target.
Eli Lilly's partnership with Verve Therapeutics covers the development of a preclinical therapy addressing a protein associated with cardiovascular disease risk. The in vivo gene-editing therapy is a potential one-time treatment.
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Verve Therapeutics received the formal FDA letter outlining what the agency wants to see before it lifts the clinical hold placed on the biotech’s gene-editing therapy. The lifting of a clinical hold on another experimental genetic medicine was among the other recent regulatory news from the past week, which included two drug approvals and one rejection.
The FDA placed a clinical hold on Verve Therapeutics’ application to begin human testing of its gene-editing therapy for an inherited form of high cholesterol. No details about the FDA’s questions or concerns were disclosed; so far, no serious safety problems have been reported in the U.K. and New Zealand where the clinical trial is already underway.
Lyell Immunopharma and Verve Therapeutics are still preclinical, but they're bringing novel genetic approaches to the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Now the two companies can claim two of the biggest biotech IPOs of 2021 so far.
The company, partnered with Beam Therapeutics, Verily Life Sciences and academic institutions, plans to use gene editing to tackle coronary artery disease. However, experience with gene therapy indicates cost could be a hurdle.
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