Beam Therapeutics Highlights Improved Manufacturing Process For BEAM-101, A Base Editing Treatment Under Investigation For Sickle Cell Disease

 Beam Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAM), a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today reported data highlighting its optimized, closed and automated manufacturing process for its base-edited CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) genetic medicines in a poster presentation at the European Hematology Association (EHA) Hybrid Congress. The optimized process is deployed for the manufacturing of BEAM-101 in the BEACON Phase 1/2 clinical trial in patients with severe sickle cell disease (SCD), and the data include both preclinical and GMP clinical manufacturing experience to date.