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• House Vote Clears Way for Budget Deal with Cuts for Most Science Agencies
  
• Bluebird Bio Pulls In $30M to Support Gene Therapy Clinical Development
  
• CHMP Says AMT’s Lipoprotein Lipase Deficiency Candidate Can’t Yet Be Approved
  
• Zinc Finger-Based Approach Rectifies Clotting Times in Mice with Hemophilia B
  
• Researchers Combine Stem Cell with Artificial Chromosome to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Mice
  
• FKD Therapies Acquires Exclusive License to Merck & Co.’s Gene Therapy Portfolio
  
• Afraxis Joins NIH’s Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Disease Program
  
• NIH Gives Genesis Biopharma Access to 43 Cancer Cell Therapy Patents for $1.2M
  
• RetroSense Licenses Gene Therapy for Restoring Vision from Wayne State University
  
• Oxford BioMedica and Mayo Clinic Partner to Develop Gene Therapy for Glaucoma
  
• Nearly Two-to-One Majority Sees FDA or EMA Approval of Gene Therapy by 2013
  
• Voters Divided on What Congress Will Do About NIH in FY 2012
  
• AMT Raises €2.5M but Says Future Still Hangs in the Balance
  
• NIH Won’t Survive FY 2013 Without Budget Reduction, GEN Poll Predicts
  
• NIH Will Pay for Salary Cap with GEN Poll Predicting Researchers Will Migrate to Industry
  
• Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Treating Beta-Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease
  
• Ark Wins €6M EU Funding to Develop Gene Therapy for Fetal Growth Restriction in Pregnancy
  
• NIH’s NCATS Establishes $20M Collaborative Drug Repositioning Initiative
  
• Lonza, Avalanche Partner on Baculovirus-Based AAV Manufacturing Platform
  
• uniQure, UCSF Partner on Parkinson Disease Gene Therapy Trial