SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Immusoft Corporation, a Seattle, Wash.-based gene therapy company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to treat the first indication in the company’s pipeline, MPS I (Mucopolysaccharidosis type I).
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Immusoft Corporation, a Seattle, Wash.-based gene therapy company, announced today it is a winner of the Most Promising Company Award from the Precision Medicine World Conference, held in Silicon Valley last week. The award recognizes companies with especially promising and innovative health care diagnostic, therapeutic and technological solutions.
Sean Ainsworth hopes to strike biotech gold, again, joining Seattle-based Immusoft Corp. as CEO and chairman. Immusoft is a gene-therapy company that hopes to use a patient’s immune cells to treat diseases, including MPS-I, or mucopolysaccharidosis type I, a rare genetic disease that is expected to be Immusoft’s first clinical application. The company uses a cell-culture system invented by Nobel laureate David Baltimore that it calls Immune System Programming.
