Immusoft Awarded $8M in Funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for MPS I Clinical Program

Immusoft of CA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Immusoft Corporation, a clinical-stage cell therapy company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with rare or genetic diseases, announced today that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded the company an $8M grant. This funding will support a Phase I study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ISP-001 (for delivery of alpha-L-iduronidase, or IDUA) in MPS I a rare, childhood genetic disease. The Investigational New Drug Application for the study was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as previously announced by Immusoft on September 1, 2022. This clinical study is both significant for Immusoft and historic in the field of cell and gene therapies, as ISP-001 will be the first engineered B cell therapy to enter into human clinical trials. Immusoft has pioneered the engineering of B cells to create biofactories for in vivo therapeutic protein delivery, leading the field with over 60 issued and pending patents. Read more >>