FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Capsida Biotherapeutics

Capsida Biotherapeutics („Capsida“) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to Capsida for CAP-002. CAP-002 is the company’s lead investigational gene therapy for the treatment of developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) due to syntaxin-binding protein 1 (STXBP1) mutations. CAP-002 is a novel, first-in-class IV-administered gene therapy using one of Capsida’s proprietary engineered capsids designed to achieve brain-wide neuronal expression of the STXBP1 protein while significantly detargeting the liver. CAP-002 is currently in IND-enabling studies.

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