UCL spinout Orchard Therapeutics to be acquired by Kyowa Kirin for $477M
Orchard was founded in 2015 through a partnership between UCL Business (UCLB), the commercialisation company for UCL, and F-Prime Capital Partners. Its revolutionary treatments are the result of decades long gene therapy research and clinical work led by UCL Professors Bobby Gaspar and Adrian Thrasher, both based at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.