Precision BioSciences, Inc. announced that the Company submitted Clinical Trial Applications to initiate a Phase 1 study evaluating PBGENE-HBV. PBGENE-HBV is the Company’s wholly owned in vivo gene editing program designed to potentially cure chronic hepatitis B virus by eliminating cccDNA, the key source of replicating hepatitis B virus, while also inactivating integrated HBV DNA in hepatocytes.
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Barinthus Biotherapeutics plc announced the completion of enrollment for HBV003 – a Phase 2b clinical trial of VTP-300 in adults with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). The Phase 2b HBV003 trial has enrolled 121 participants and is designed to obtain critical dosing information for a potential functional cure regimen for CHB, with participants receiving VTP-300 and low-dose (LD) nivolumab.
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