Turning One Drug for One Patient Into a Shared Platform: U.S. Invests $27.7 Million to Tackle Rare Childhood Immune Disorders
The AEGIS program will combine base editing, prime editing, and bone marrow-targeted delivery in an effort to use shared manufacturing, toxicology, and clinical frameworks to rapidly create one-time treatments for different ultra-rare mutations; treating 10 children within five years is a goal, not a proven outcome.