Milind Y. Desai, Sherif F. Nagueh, John R. Giudicessi, Michael J. Previs, Danielle Kellner, Matthew J. Pollman, Fatbardha Varfaj, Laura Robertson, Natasha Sonicheva-Paterson, Richard Pushkin, Brian Mangal, LaTanya Tomlinson, W. G. Harrison, Lynn Yamamoto, Gretchen Argast, Laura M. Lombardi, Kathryn N. Ivey, Whittemore G. Tingley
This brief report details the initial findings from a Phase 1b/2 trial of TN-201, an adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) gene therapy for MYBPC3-associated hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a condition with significant morbidity, increased risk of mortality, and no approved therapy for the majority of patients. TN-201 was well tolerated, and changes to the management of potential immune responses resulted in a shorter period of immunosuppression. These results show consistent transduction and expression of TN-201 in cardiomyocytes, corresponding with increases in MyBP-C levels, reductions or stabilization of cardiac biomarkers, and reductions in key measures of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy.