CombiGene AB (publ) announced that the patent offices in Australia and India have granted patent for the epilepsy project CG01. The approval strengthens the project, which CombiGene recently has regained the global rights to.
CG01 has previously been granted patents in the USA and Russia. CG01 is a unique gene therapy candidate aimed at a large patient population to solve an unmet need in epilepsy treatment. Epilepsy is a major global medical problem with approximately 47,000 drug-resistant patients with focal epilepsy estimated to be added each year in the US, EU4, UK, Japan, and China. CG01 is in preclinical stage.