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flag Penn Medicine team wins $3M prize for FDA-approved gene therapy restoring inherited blindness.

flag A team from Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia won the Breakthrough Prize for developing the first FDA-approved gene therapy for an inherited blindness. flag Their treatment, Luxturna, restores sight to patients who would otherwise be blind from childhood. flag The work has inspired over 140 gene therapy trials for retinal diseases and comes with a $3 million award.

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