uniQure NV has raised $259 million from a public share offering on Nasdaq a little more than a week after receiving positive feedback from the US Food and Drug Administration for a marketing authorisation application for the gene therapy AMT-130. Proceeds from the offering were announced on 25 June. They will be used to advance the therapy, which has been developed to treat Huntington’s disease, towards commercialisation. The company is expected to file an application for an accelerated approval of the therapy during the third quarter.
