Evotec ends gene therapy business, shuts down facility in Austria

Evotec has pro­vid­ed fur­ther up­dates to its “pri­or­i­ty re­set” as the CRD­MO ex­its the gene ther­a­py space and clos­es a site in Aus­tria which would af­fect 40 staffers.

The Ger­man com­pa­ny said it will no longer of­fer ser­vices in gene ther­a­py — its busi­ness arm dubbed Evotec GT — and will in­stead fo­cus on its “core modal­i­ties,” ac­cord­ing to a Wednes­day press re­lease. It ex­pand­ed in­to gene ther­a­py in April 2020, when it al­so part­nered with Take­da for the phar­ma’s gene ther­a­py ap­proach­es.

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