Precigen, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGEN), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative gene and cell therapies to improve the lives of patients, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a Phase I clinical trial of Precigen’s PRGN-2012, a first-in-class, investigational off-the-shelf (OTS) AdenoVerse™ immunotherapy in adult patients with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP).
RRP is a rare, difficult-to-treat, and sometimes fatal neoplastic disease of the upper and lower respiratory tracts caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) type 6 (HPV 6) or HPV type 11 (HPV 11).1-4
Precigen has offices/labs located at the VTCRC, Blacksburg, VA.