BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRN), a global biotechnology company dedicated to transforming lives through genetic discovery, today announced that an individual in Germany with severe hemophilia A was treated with ROCTAVIAN® (valoctocogene roxaparvovec-rvox), marking the first time that the gene therapy has been given commercially in Europe.

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Roctavian, an adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with severe hemophilia A without pre-existing antibodies to adeno-associated virus serotype 5 detected by an FDA-approved test.