The drug maker reported what it said were encouraging early uptake signs for Eylea HD while also seeking to reassure analysts concerned about its BCMA-directed bispecific’s differentiation.

Two gene therapies, from Molecular Therapeutics and Intellia Therapeutics respectively, are among the four new products the European Medicines Agency accepted onto it priority medicines scheme this month.

With its first US study for a base-edited CAR-T therapy now back on track, Beam Therapeutics is gearing up to begin studies of its first in vivo candidate, BEAM-302, next year in AAT.

The 19 breakthrough therapy designations awarded so far this year run the gamut from areas that traditionally have not fared well with BTDs, like cardiovascular and respiratory disease, alongside the traditional cancer and orphan disease tentpoles.