A new gene therapy company with plans to start clinical development of its first product has raised $54 million in a Series A financing round. Latus Bio Inc is a spin-out of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, US, with a new technology for producing adeno-associated viral vectors, one of the most common vectors in use for gene therapies. Announced on 2 May, the financing round was led by 8VC of Texas and DCVC Bio of California.
