PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that its SIRION Biotech business and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), an international biomedical research center of excellence located in Barcelona, Spain, have entered into an agreement to jointly develop new generation adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for type 1 and type 2 diabetes gene therapy in the pancreas. The collaboration combines SIRION's AAV technology platform and expertise in viral vector development and production with CRG's deep knowledge of genetic regulatory mechanisms. The end goal is to develop AAV vectors that target specific pancreatic cell types and contain payloads that express therapeutic genes under control of cell-specific regulatory elements. This new approach aims to increase the precision, safety, and efficacy of future AAV based gene therapies for diabetes.