Beam Therapeutics to Present New Preclinical Data on Base Editing Programs for Hemoglobinopathies at ASH 2019

On November 21, 2019 Beam Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, reported that it will present preclinical data for the company’s programs addressing sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia, two blood disorders that lack effective, disease-modifying treatments, at the 61st Annual American Society of Hematology (ASH) (Free ASH Whitepaper) Annual Meeting, being held December 7-10, 2019 in Orlando, Fla (Press release, Beam Therapeutics, NOV 21, 2019, View Source [SID1234551565]).

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Details of the new data being presented in a poster at ASH (Free ASH Whitepaper) are as follows:

Title: Complementary base editing approaches for the treatment of sickle cell disease and

Beta-thalassemia

Date & Time: Sunday, December 8, 2019, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET

Poster Session: 801 – Gene Therapy and Transfer: Poster II

Location: Orange County Convention Center, Hall B

Presenter: Ling Lin, Ph.D., senior scientist II, Beam Therapeutics