Bloomsbury Genetic Therapies launches with Seed financing of £5m to develop potentially curative gene therapy treatments for rare neurological and metabolic diseases

Bloomsbury Genetic Therapies Limited, a biotechnology company developing potentially curative treatments for patients suffering from rare neurological and metabolic diseases, based on clinically proven gene therapy technologies, has announced its launch with £5m seed financing led by UCL Technology Fund.

Bloomsbury’s innovative approach is designed to optimise therapeutic efficacy and safety, enable high manufacturability, accelerate development timelines and maximise regulatory success to create a pipeline of highly differentiated first- or best-in-class programs. The company’s lead programmes are liver and CNS targeted gene therapies.

Sara Garcia Gomez, Senior Business Manager at UCLB said, “We are really excited to see the launch of Bloomsbury GTx, and we look forward to seeing the acceleration of these UCL therapies into patients. It’s a great example of how UCLB works alongside academic excellence from UCL, to bring innovations to the real world for the benefit of society.”

Read the full announcement from Bloomsbury here.