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Passage Bio Announces Positive Feedback from FDA on Expansion of upliFT-D Trial of PBFT02 to Include FTD-C9orf72 Patients
PASGPassage BIO(PASG) Newsfilter·2024-07-16 19:00

Plan to initiate dosing of FTD-C9orf72 patients in 1H 2025 FTD-C9orf72 is estimated to affect approximately 21,000 individuals in the United States and Europe. Similar to FTD-GRN, FTD-C9orf72 is marked by TDP-43 pathology, where the transactive response DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43) abnormally accumulates in the cytoplasm of neurons, leading to neuronal dysfunction and degeneration. Third-party preclinical studies have demonstrated that increasing PGRN levels can reduce TDP43 pathology and slow neurodegen ...