Nature of Operations	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
Nature of Operations
Nature of Operations	1. Nature of Operations Passage Bio, Inc., or the Company, a Delaware corporation incorporated in July 2017, is a clinical stage genetic medicines company focused on developing transformative therapies for central nervous system, or CNS disorders, with limited or no approved treatment options. The Company has a strategic research collaboration with the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania’s, or Penn, Gene Therapy Program, or GTP, that provides the Company with access to one of the premier research institutions in the world for the discovery and preclinical development of genetic medicine product candidates, and exclusive rights to certain CNS indications. Under this collaboration, GTP conducts discovery and preclinical activities enabling Investigational New Drug, or IND, applications and the Company conducts all clinical development, manufacturing, regulatory strategy, and commercialization activities under the agreement. The Company also has a collaboration agreement and a development services and clinical supply agreement with Catalent Maryland, Inc., or Catalent, for clinical scale manufacturing requirements.

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