Clinical trial OK for Takara's VM106

22 January 2007

Japan-headquartered Takara Bio's affiliate ViroMed Co based in Korea, has announced that the Korea Food & Drug Administration approval of the clinical trial of VM106, gene therapy treatment drug, for chronic granulomatosis. Takara Bio's RetroNectin method was used under license in the clinical trial.

For the Retro Nectin treatment, VM106 utilizes a retro virus vector to inject gp91, the normal treatment gene, into the extracted hematopoietic stem cell of the patient. Afterwards a sample of this is injected back into the patient, reports the JCNNetWork.

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