March 25, 2019 (Boston, MA) The inaugural meeting of the Odylia Gene Therapy Pre-Competitive Consortium has been held at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear campus in Boston, MA. This meeting brought together a select group of thought leaders in the gene therapy field...
Researcher and entrepreneur Luk Vandenberghe thinks he can transport genes into cells much more efficiently by improving the viral vectors that carry them. He also describes how Odylia can leverage these new technologies to bring therapies for ultra-rare disorders into the clinic. Read the full Nature...
Odylia CSO Harrison Brown speaks to the Charles River World Congress on the promises and challenges of gene therapy for rare diseases. Video link: Delivering the DNA...
Odylia CEO Scott Dorfman presented the Odylia concept to the National Institutes of Health and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at a conference on The Growing Promise of Gene Therapy Approaches. Please skip to 4:18:00 to see the Odylia talk and followup panel discussion. Please click...
Odylia and co-founder Luk Vandenberghe have been named Xconomy Contrarian Awards finalists After decades of ups and downs, gene therapy’s renaissance is well underway. With one gene therapy, Luxturna, now approved in the U.S., several more are advancing through clinical testing. It’s standard fare now to...
Aldevron and Odylia partner for gene therapy treatments of ultra-rare diseases. Odylia and Aldevron, a contract manufacturing organization specializing in the production of plasmid DNA and other biological agents, have entered into an agreement in which Aldevron is a member of Odylia. Under this agreement, Aldevron...
Odylia will be attending the International Symposium on Usher Syndrome July 19-21 in Mainz, Germany. CEO, Scott Dorfman, will be speaking during the scientific presentations on July 20 to present Odylia’s mission to move science to the clinic. Odylia will also present a poster at the...
Odylia will be attending the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. We will be meeting with companies and individuals to discuss ways an Odylia partnership can quickly advance therapies for rare disease from the lab to the clinic. Visit Website...
Scott Dorfman, co-founder and CEO of Odylia, speaks to RARECast about what drove the creation of Odylia, how it works as a non-profit, and how we can extend our model to bring more therapies for rare disease to patients. Listen to Interview...
Massachusetts Eye and Ear says it has performed the first post-approval injection of the Luxturna®, which treats a form of blindness caused by RPE65 deficiency, otherwise known as RP20. The hospital announced on Tuesday that Jason Comander, the associate director of its inherited retinal disorders...