Children's Hospital Celebrates European Commission Approval of First-of-Its-Kind Gene Therapy for Blindness
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia celebrates a pivotal moment in medicine: approval by the European Commission of LUXTURNA® (voretigene neparvovec), the first and only gene therapy for patients with an inherited retinal disease, last month. This also makes LUXTURNA the first gene therapy for a genetic disease that has received regulatory approval in both the U.S. and European Union.