MedCity News December 3, 2021
Frank Vinluan

AviadoBio’s gene therapies are designed to achieve widespread distribution throughout the central nervous system. The company’s lead program on track to begin human testing as a treatment for frontotemporal dementia.

A biotech company with an answer for one of the challenges facing gene therapies for neurodegenerative disorders is out of stealth with a former Novartis executive at the helm and $80 million to support its research.

The lead program of AviadoBio is a gene therapy for frontotemporal dementia. The London-based startup plans to use the Series A round of funding to advance that candidate into human testing, and to continue work on preclinical assets that include a potential gene therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

AviadoBio’s technology is based on research...

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