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FDA Clears Orchard’s Lenmeldy Gene Therapy for MLD
Orchard Therapeutics, now a Kyowa Kirin company, has earned US regulatory approval for Lenmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel), a gene therapy for the treatment of children with early-onset metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). Previously known as OTL-200, Lenmeldy was approved by the FDA on…
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