An investigational medicine that addresses the genetic root cause of BAG3 DCM, AFTX-201 is being evaluated as a treatment for BAG3 DCM in the UPBEAT trial in the U.S. and Canada AFTX-201 is designed using Affinia’s proprietary capsid engineered for efficient cardiac transduction at doses that are 5-10-fold lower than doses of gene therapies using […] The post Affinia Therapeutics Receives Approval from Health Canada to Initiate the UPBEAT© Trial, a Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial to Investigate AFTX-201 as a Treatment for BAG3-Associated Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) appeared first on AffiniaTX .