In a flurry of activity, multiple biopharma companies made their first appearance on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange on June 25, raising hundreds of millions of dollars to advance the development of next-generation therapeutics and scale their businesses.

Shares of Avrobio were up in trading after the company posted positive clinical data from gene therapy trials in three different rare lysosomal diseases: Fabry, Gaucher type 1 and cystinosis.