At BIO Japan (Yokohama, Oct 7-9), Glafabra is seeking two kinds of partners: manufacturing partners (CDMOs, analytical development groups, vector partners experienced in autologous lentiviral stem-cell therapy) and Japan pharma partners interested in a licensing/co-development conversation for Glafabra's LSD programs.

This follows directly from FDA's INTERACT feedback pointing toward a defined CMC...more

This is exactly the kind of scrutiny a rare-disease gene therapy program should welcome before it reaches a larger trial.

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Glafabra co-founder Dr. Jeff Medin presents Live-cel data at IFFD 2026, the international Fabry symposium at Jikei University in Tokyo, on October 2.

This puts trial data in front of the specialist community that diagnoses and manages Fabry patients directly -- a different, and in some ways more demanding, audience than investors or the general public.

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Dwayne is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, author of more than 70 papers on hematopoietic signalling, leukemia, and lysosomal storage disorders, and served as project manager for the Phase 1 trial that first used gene therapy to treat Fabry disease -- the pilot work behind Glafabra's FACTS data.

He brings direct experience with the regulatory challenges specific to cell and gene th...more

Fabry, Pompe, and Gaucher disease are each caused by a different missing lysosomal enzyme, but treated with the same underlying approach: correct a patient's own hematopoietic stem cells ex vivo, then re-infuse them. FDA's INTERACT feedback confirmed CMC knowledge -- vector backbone, packaging system, process steps -- can carry across programs where those elements are conserved.

That's the basis f...more

The clinical data package FDA asked for in INTERACT feedback (alpha-Gal A activity, plasma lyso-Gb3, eGFR slope) is largely the same package Japan's PMDA would want to see for a parallel review. Glafabra is building Japan pharma and academic relationships (via IFFD, BIO Japan, and direct outreach) in parallel with the U.S. trial, rather than sequencing Japan after U.S. approval.

Done well, this co...more