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Guangping Gao, the head of the Horae Gene Therapy Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, will partner with Philadelphia-based Spark Therapeutics to figure out better ways to get disease-curing genes into cells.
The collaboration, announced this morning, gives Spark (Nasdaq: ONCE) the option for an exclusive, world-wide license for any intellectual property to come out of it. No financial terms were disclosed.
Earlier this year, Gao was featured in Newsweek magazine for seemingly…