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    Gene Therapy Finds a Fertile Home in Ohio

    January 12, 2020

    The midwestern state has quietly laid the groundwork for a biotech hub.

    Sarepta Therapeutics’s outpost in Ohio occupies a collection of offices and labs on the second floor of a large, squat structure known as “Building 4” in a business park outside of Columbus. Despite the facility’s unassuming exterior, the start of research onsite here in spring 2019 marked a milestone in Ohio’s two-decade-long march toward becoming a gene therapy hub. “We’re making a very significant commitment and investment in Columbus,” Doug Ingram, the CEO of Cambridge, Massachusetts–based Sarepta, told Columbus Business First in an article about the new division. “There is a real chance Columbus, Ohio, could become the most important place in the world for gene therapy development.”

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