CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTLA), a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on revolutionizing medicine leveraging CRISPR gene editing and other core technologies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has removed the clinical hold on the Investigational New Drug application (IND) for the MAGNITUDE Phase 3 clinical trial of nexiguran ziclumeran (nex-z) for patients with transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM).
“We are very pleased to have aligned with the FDA on the path forward for our MAGNITUDE clinical trial, with measures designed to further enhance patient safety and allow us to continue to investigate nex-z in a broad ATTR-CM population,” said Intellia President and Chief Executive Officer John Leonard, M.D. “With the resolution in January of the clinical hold on our MAGNITUDE-2 Phase 3 trial for patients with hereditary ATTR with polyneuropathy, our attention now turns to completing enrollment in both ongoing trials. We appreciate the FDA’s responsiveness throughout this process and thank the many investigators and patients who are participating in these trials.”