Spark's gene therapy for patients with an inherited form of blindness will be available in the US late in the first quarter, but on the big question – whether it will cost $1m for the one-time treatment – Spark would not say.
Spark Therapeutics Inc. has earned a place in the pharma history books on two fronts, as the first drug maker to secure a gene therapy approval from FDA and the first company to develop a treatment for blindness. But it remains to be seen whether it reaches another first – a $1m price tag.
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