uniQure shares steady after FDA momentum, Huntington’s filing on radar
uniQure N.V. shares on the Nasdaq held much of Wednesday’s big jump in premarket trade Thursday. The U.S. FDA has cleared a route for the Netherlands-based gene-therapy firm to pursue approval of its experimental Huntington’s disease drug, AMT-130. The stock finished at $48.16 on Wednesday, climbing 78.4% from $26.99 a day before. uniQure says the news is key right now since AMT-130 is its main pipeline asset and there’s no approved drug for Huntington’s disease that puts off symptoms or slows things down. Huntington’s is a genetic brain disease causing movement problems, mental decline, and changes in behavior.