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Taysha Gene Therapies went public with a bang earlier this year with a $157 million IPO just five months after its Series A financing. Now, with the help of the city of Durham, North Carolina, Taysha is plotting an expansive development and manufacturing facility to ramp up supplies for the clinic and potentially the commercial market.

The new 187,000-square-foot cGMP plant will create roughly 200 jobs for Taysha Gene Therapies, which formed in late 2019 with the sole focus of developing therapeutics for monogenic diseases using an adeno-associate virus methodology. The announcement continues a rapid ascent for Taysha, which launched Series A financing just in April, and a mere five months later had its own Nasdaq ticker, offering a $157 million IPO and pricing shares at $20 apiece.

The facility is the result of a public-private partnership between Taysha, the city of Durham and the state of North Carolina. Taysha will invest $75 million into the facility, with additional state and local incentives totaling another $9.4 million. All told, the 200 jobs will come to fruition over a two-and-a-half-year period across all functions, including gene therapy development, analytics, manufacturing and quality control testing.

Tayshas facility is expected to be fully operational by 2023 and will add 2,000 liters of capacity supporting all aspects of scalable gene therapy manufacturing. The company said in a news release it will now be able to meet the clinical and commercial demands within the field when combined with its existing collaborations with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and CDMO Catalent.

With our outstanding team of experts leading the charge, we expect this facility will serve as a center of excellence for gene therapy development, from preclinical studies through commercialization, and will further our leadership position in gene therapy as well as support our next phase of growth, RA Session II, Tayshas president, founder and CEO, said in a press release.

The new facility will serve as an integral part of rapid expansion for the Dallas-based biotech, which said it expects to have four open Investigational New Drug applications in 2021. Tayshas most advanced of those is a drug being developed for the treatment of GM2 gangliosidosis, a family of neurodegenerative disorders that includes Tay-Sachs disease and Sandhoff disease.

The other three such programs are looking to treat Rett Syndrome, epilepsy and SURF1 deficiencies.

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