Summerville man becomes 1st SC patient to receive “Hemgenix,” a $3.5 million gene therapy treatment for Hemophilia B

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – A Summerville man became the first person in South Carolina to undergo potentially life-changing gene therapy. The treatment took place Thursday morning at Prisma Health’s Hemophilia Treatment Center in Columbia. Thirty-eight-year-old Brent Maloy was diagnosed with the rare bleeding disorder Hemophilia B as a…

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