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‘Otarmani’: The First Gene Therapy for Genetic Deafness

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  • The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval under the ‘National Priority Voucher Program’.
  • Development: By Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
  • This therapy is approved for the treatment of a specific type of hearing loss caused by mutations in the OTOF gene.
  • This gene codes for a protein called Otoferlin.