{"id":235922,"date":"2026-04-25T18:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/fda-approval-of-regenerons-hearing-loss-gene-therapy-breaks-barriers"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:11:18","slug":"fda-approval-of-regenerons-hearing-loss-gene-therapy-breaks-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/fda-approval-of-regenerons-hearing-loss-gene-therapy-breaks-barriers","title":{"rendered":"FDA approval of Regeneron\u2019s hearing loss gene therapy breaks barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approval-of-regenerons-hearing-loss-gene-therapy-breaks-barriers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regeneron\u2019s AAV gene therapy for congenital deafness has been approved by the FDA \u2014 a clinical victory for helping patients and an exciting milestone for gene therapy in general!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Approved Thursday via the FDA\u2019s Commissioner\u2019s National Priority Voucher program, Otarmeni is the first gene therapy for hearing loss\u2014and the first treatment to target an underlying cause of the condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regeneron\u2019s AAV gene therapy for congenital deafness has been approved by the FDA \u2014 a clinical victory for helping patients and an exciting milestone for gene therapy in general! Approved Thursday via the FDA\u2019s Commissioner\u2019s National Priority Voucher program, Otarmeni is the first gene therapy for hearing loss\u2014and the first treatment to target an underlying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}