Hubble Therapeutics LLC a patient-focused biotechnology company developing a gene therapy to cure pediatric blindness, announces the successful closing of a $7.3 million Series A funding round, which will advance its lead candidate, HUB-101, into human clinical trials.

Hubble Therapeutics is a patient-focused biotechnology company developing research from Professor Bikash Pattnaik's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hubble's primary focus is on developing novel gene therapy for Leber Congenital Amaurosis Type 16 (LCA16) and Snowflake Vitreoretinal Degeneration (SVD), two debilitating retinal diseases that lead to severe vision loss in adult and pediatric patients.