Vertex pays ImmunoGen $15M to use antibody-drug conjugates to improve CRISPR therapy

Are antibody-drug conjugates the key to better gene editing treatments? That is a question posed by the latest deal by Vertex, which is paying ImmunoGen $15 million upfront to explore the use of ADCs with its near-approval CRISPR/Cas9 therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel).