UK's NHS to roll out Vertex/CRISPR gene therapy for rare blood disorder
Updates with details from statement in paragraphs 2-6, updates with background in paragraphs 7-8
Aug 7 (Reuters) -Britain's National Health Service (NHS) will begin to roll out a gene therapy from Vertex Pharmaceuticals VRTX.O and CRISPR Therapeutics CRSP.BN to treat rare blood disorder beta thalassemia, Vertex said in a statement on Wednesday.
Casgevy, which requires administration through authorized treatment centers with experience in stem cell transplantation, will be made available to eligible patients from Aug. 7, the company said.
The agreement between Vertex and the NHS comes as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued positive guidance recommending Casgevy's use, Vertex said.
About 460 patients in England with transfusion-dependent beta thalassaemia aged 12 and older are potentially eligible for the treatment, which uses gene-editing technology, the NHS said in a statement.
The NHS said the therapy will be manufactured in the UK, and is set to be offered at seven of its specialist centres.
The UK list price for the therapy stands at 1.65 million pounds ($2.09 million), a spokesperson for Vertex said, adding that the company cannot comment on a negotiated price.
Britain's medical regulator had authorized Casgevy CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy last November for the treatment of sickle-cell disease and another type of inherited blood disorder for patients aged 12 and over.
The medicine is administered by taking stem cells out of a patient's bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory, with the modified cells then infused back into the patient after conditioning treatment to prepare the bone marrow.
($1 = 0.7890 pounds)
Reporting by Gursimran Kaur and additional reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Sherry Jacob-Phillips
免责声明: XM Group仅提供在线交易平台的执行服务和访问权限，并允许个人查看和/或使用网站或网站所提供的内容，但无意进行任何更改或扩展，也不会更改或扩展其服务和访问权限。所有访问和使用权限，将受下列条款与条例约束：(i) 条款与条例；(ii) 风险提示；以及(iii) 完整免责声明。请注意，网站所提供的所有讯息，仅限一般资讯用途。此外，XM所有在线交易平台的内容并不构成，也不能被用于任何未经授权的金融市场交易邀约和/或邀请。金融市场交易对于您的投资资本含有重大风险。
所有在线交易平台所发布的资料，仅适用于教育/资讯类用途，不包含也不应被视为用于金融、投资税或交易相关咨询和建议，或是交易价格纪录，或是任何金融商品或非应邀途径的金融相关优惠的交易邀约或邀请。
本网站上由XM和第三方供应商所提供的所有内容，包括意见、新闻、研究、分析、价格、其他资讯和第三方网站链接，皆保持不变，并作为一般市场评论所提供，而非投资性建议。所有在线交易平台所发布的资料，仅适用于教育/资讯类用途，不包含也不应被视为适用于金融、投资税或交易相关咨询和建议，或是交易价格纪录，或是任何金融商品或非应邀途径的金融相关优惠的交易邀约或邀请。请确保您已阅读并完全理解，XM非独立投资研究提示和风险提示相关资讯，更多详情请点击 这里。
