Syncona Limited Freeline to present further FLT180a data at EAHAD

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Syncona Limited

21 January 2020

Freeline to present further FLT180a data at EAHAD

21 January 2020

Syncona announces that its portfolio company, Freeline will be disclosing further data from its Phase 1/2 B-AMAZE trial investigating a novel gene therapy, FLT180a, for Haemophilia B on Friday 7 February 2020 at 14:00-15:00 at the 13th Annual Congress of the European Association for Haemophilia and Allied Disorders (EAHAD), The Hague, Netherlands. Syncona will provide the details of this data via an RNS announcement. Previously, Freeline has disclosed 66- and 74-week data for the first cohort of two patients who were treated with the lowest study dose (4.5x1011vg/kg).

The Hot Topics session details have been published today and are available on the EAHAD website at https://eahadcongress.com/programme/programme/#friday.

Title: Phase 1/2 interim data from B-AMAZE study of adeno associated virus (AAV) gene therapy (FLT180a) confirms progress towards achieving Factor IX levels in the normal range for patients with severe or moderately severe haemophilia B

Presenter: Dr Pratima Chowdary

Session Date and Time: Friday 7 February 2020 at 14:00 - 15:00 pm CET

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Syncona is a leading FTSE250 healthcare company focused on founding, building and funding a portfolio of global leaders in life science. Our vision is to build a sustainable, diverse portfolio of 15 - 20 companies focused on delivering transformational treatments to patients in truly innovative areas of healthcare, through which we are seeking to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns for shareholders.

We seek to partner with the best, brightest and most ambitious minds in science to build globally competitive businesses. We take a long-term view, underpinned by a strategic capital base which provides us with control and flexibility over the management of our portfolio. We focus on delivering dramatic efficacy for patients in areas of high unmet need.

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