Privately-held Swiss drugmaker Ferring Pharmaceuticals has launched a new gene therapy company, FerGene, together with Blackstone Life Sciences.
A joint investment of $570 million will be used to support lead candidate nadofaragene firadenovec (rAd-IFN/Syn3), an investigational gene therapy in late stage development for certain people with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
Blackstone will invest $400 million and Ferring will invest up to $170 million in the joint venture.
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