Freeline to Present Data at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Annual Meeting 2021 – GlobeNewswire

Posted: May 1, 2021 at 1:55 am

LONDON, April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freeline Therapeutics Holdings plc (Nasdaq: FRLN) (the Company or Freeline), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative gene therapies for patients suffering from inherited systemic debilitating diseases, today announced that the Company will give six poster presentations at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Annual Meeting 2021, taking place May 11 14.

We are excited to be presenting six posters at the upcoming ASGCT conference, which together highlight the scientific foundation that underlies our gene therapy programs and broader platform technology, said Theresa Heggie, CEO of Freeline. These posters are reflective of steady progress at Freeline, which we expect will include three gene therapies in the clinic by year end.

Poster Presentation Details

#329:FLT201, a Novel Investigational AAV-Mediated Gene Therapy Candidate for Gaucher Disease Type 1Presenter: RomualdCorbau, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer

#509:GLA Uptake and Metabolic Cross Correction in Fabry Disease Relevant Cell Lines: A Rationale for Liver-Directed AAV Gene TherapyPresenter:Jey Jeyakumar, PhD, Scientific Director

#821:Development of a 96-Well Plate-Based High-Throughput System forrAAVManufacturing Platform Optimization and Candidate SelectionPresenter: BettinaPrieler, PhD Student Technology Development

#843:Development and Scale Up of a Suspension Cell-Based AAV Manufacturing ProcessPresenter:Ahmed Youssef, Team Leader USP Development

#878:Defining a Reliable Quantification Assay Strategy for Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)-Based Gene TherapiesPresenter:FeliciaThoennissen, PhD, Scientist Analytical Development

#894:Development of an Assay to Measure Transduction Efficiency of Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)-Based Gene TherapiesPresenter:Anita Heinlein, Scientist Analytical Development

Abstracts will be available on the ASGCT website starting today.

About Freeline Therapeutics

Freeline is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-mediated systemic gene therapies. The Company is dedicated to improving patient lives through innovative, one-time treatments that provide functional cures for inherited systemic debilitating diseases. Freeline uses its proprietary, rationally-designed AAV vector, along with novel promoters and transgenes, to deliver a functional copy of a therapeutic gene into human liver cells, thereby expressing a persistent functional level of the missing protein into the patients bloodstream. The Companys integrated gene therapy platform includes in-house capabilities in research, clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization. The Company has clinical programs in Hemophilia B and Fabry disease, as well as preclinical programs in Gaucher disease and Hemophilia A. Freeline is headquartered in the UK and has operations in Germany and the US.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains statements that constitute forward looking statements as that term is defined in the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements that express the Companys opinions, expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or projections regarding future events or future results, in contrast with statements that reflect historical facts. Examples include discussion of the Companys research, pipeline and clinical trial plans. In some cases, you can identify such forward-looking statements by terminology such as anticipate, intend, believe, estimate, plan, seek, project or expect, may, will, would, could or should, the negative of these terms or similar expressions. Forward looking statements are based on managements current beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to the Company, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties, including the Companys recurring losses from operations; the development of the Companys product candidates, including statements regarding the timing of initiation, completion and the outcome of clinical studies or trials and related preparatory work and regulatory review; the Companys ability to design and implement successful clinical trials for its product candidates; the potential for a pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of infectious diseases in the US, UK or EU, including the COVID-19 pandemic, to disrupt the Companys clinical trial pipeline; the Companys failure to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of its product candidates; the fact that results obtained in earlier stage clinical testing may not be indicative of results in future clinical trials; the Companys ability to enroll patients in clinical trials for its product candidates; the possibility that one or more of the Companys product candidates may cause serious adverse, undesirable or unacceptable side effects or have other properties that could delay or prevent their regulatory approval or limit their commercial potential; the Companys ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of its product candidates; the Companys limited manufacturing experience which could result in delays in the development, regulatory approval or commercialization of its product candidates; and the Companys ability to identify or discover additional product candidates, or failure to capitalize on programs or product candidates. Such risks and uncertainties may cause the statements to be inaccurate and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Many of these risks are outside of the Companys control and could cause its actual results to differ materially from those it thought would occur. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. The Company does not undertake, and specifically declines, any obligation to update any such statements or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to any such statements to reflect future events or developments, except as required by law. For further information, please reference the Companys reports and documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. You may get these documents by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov.

Contact

David S. ArringtonVice President Investor Relations & Corporate CommunicationsFreeline Therapeuticsdavid.arrington@freeline.life+1 (646) 668 6947

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