Eyestem founder and CEO talks to Scrip about progress made by the firm’s experimental treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration, cell and gene therapy pricing considerations and the wider competitive landscape. The company is also developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

BioMarin maintains its lead in the race to win approval for a hemophilia A gene therapy in the US by resubmitting Roctavian two years after the FDA issued a CRL in response to the original BLA.

Partnered with AbbVie on a wet AMD gene therapy, Regenxbio is also advancing wholly owned candidates for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and MPS I and MPS II.

Germany is drastically squeezing orphan drug pricing while new US laws protect rare diseases drugs from price negotiations. These contrasting moves fuel the longstanding debate over whether orphans still deserve special incentives.