{"id":12855,"date":"2026-04-23T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:12:14","slug":"regeneron-gets-landmark-fda-approval-for-first-gene-therapy-for-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12855","title":{"rendered":"Regeneron Gets Landmark FDA Approval for First Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/regeneron-gene-therapy-hearing-loss-otarmeni-fda-approval-otof-otoferlin-db-oto-regn\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regeneron Pharmaceuticals\u2019 Otarmeni is now approved for treating hearing loss from an ultra-rare genetic mutation found in an estimated 50 newborns per year. While Regeneron will offer this gene therapy for free, the approval came with a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher that the company can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/regeneron-gene-therapy-hearing-loss-otarmeni-fda-approval-otof-otoferlin-db-oto-regn\/\">Regeneron Gets Landmark FDA Approval for First Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regeneron Pharmaceuticals\u2019 Otarmeni is now approved for treating hearing loss from an ultra-rare genetic mutation found in an estimated 50 newborns per year. While Regeneron will offer this gene therapy for free, the approval came with a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher that the company can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}