Founded
2015
CEO
Michael Parini
% Shareholding
79%
Stage
Late-stage clinical
Number of employees
65
Taken private in
2024
Clinical trials
1

Unless stated all financials at 31 March 2025.

Spur website

Spur Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing life-changing gene therapies for debilitating chronic conditions.

By optimising every component of its product candidates, Spur aims to unlock the true potential of gene therapy to realise outsized clinical results. Spur is advancing a breakthrough gene therapy candidate for Gaucher disease, as well as a research strategy to move gene therapy into more prevalent diseases, including a pre-clinical programme in Parkinson’s disease.

Spur’s lead programme, FLT201, is a highly differentiated gene therapy candidate that delivers a novel transgene to treat Gaucher disease Type 1, for which there is currently no cure. Spur’s next generation gene therapy uses AAV technology that aims to deliver best-in-class safe and effective gene replacement to the liver to produce sustained therapeutic protein expression. Spur has additional pre-clinical research programmes in central nervous system (CNS) and cardiovascular diseases, including one focused on GBA1 Parkinson’s disease that leverages the same novel transgene as FLT201.

The Spur Therapeutics pipeline

Best ideas Pre-clinical Clinical Late Clinical BLA
  • FLT201 - Gaucher disease

Syncona team

Chris Hollowood

Chris Hollowood

Chris is the Chief Executive Officer of Syncona Investment Management Ltd. He has been instrumental in the foundation and development of Syncona's gene therapy strategy, where it has founded companies focused on the eye, the liver, the kidney, and central nervous system. He is Chairman of Spur, and is a Board member of Beacon and Yellowstone. He was also previously Chairman of Purespring and retin…
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Position
Chair
Qualification
PhD
John Tsai

John Tsai

John Tsai is an Executive Partner of Syncona Investment Management Limited He is currently the CEO of Forcefield Therapeutics and a Board member of Purespring Therapeutics and Spur Therapeutics. As an Executive Partner at Syncona, John works closely with Lead Partners and the wider investment team to support evaluation and execution of new and existing opportunities at Syncona, utilising his 20 ye…
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Qualification
MD

Spur Therapeutics leaders and founders

Spur Therapeutics publications & presentations

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Spur Corporate Presentation - February 2025

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Spur Corporate Presentation - October 2024

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