Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 20, 2024
Via: Biopharm InternationalOn Feb. 16, 2024, FDA announced the approval of Iovance Biotherapeutics’ Amtagvi (lifileucel), which the agency said in a press release is the first cellular therapy indicated for treating adult patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma that has been previously […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 19, 2024
Via: PharmaphorumThe US regulator has approved the drug after a priority review on the strength of data from the FLAURA 2 study showing that the combination of EGFR inhibitor Tagrisso (osimertinib) and chemo cut the risk of disease progression or death […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 15, 2024
Via: PharmaphorumThe Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company is offering 19.2 million shares at $6.25 each and has scaled up its earlier expectations for the proceeds from $125 million. Prime Medicine is working on a pipeline of 18 programmes aimed at correcting pathogenic mutations […]
February 14, 2024
Via: Biopharma DiveA little over four years ago, biotechnology giant Amgen retreated from neuroscience research, halting much of its work developing treatments for diseases of the brain and trimming associated staff. Amgen’s pivot proved a boon for a small startup that was […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 13, 2024
Via: PMLiVEBoth companies have entered into a license and option agreement, as well as a securities purchase agreement, in connection with the collaboration. Under the terms of the agreement, BioNTech will purchase $200m of Autolus’ US depositary shares in a private […]
February 12, 2024
Via: Biopharma DiveSix biotechnology startups are merging into a new skin drug developer called Alys Pharmaceuticals, which launched on Monday with $100 million from European life sciences investment firm Medicxi. Alys was formed out of the merger of a group of biotechs […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 12, 2024
Via: Pharma TimesResearchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have developed a plastic microfluidic chip to improve the safety and effectiveness of cell therapy treatments for patients living with spinal cord injuries. In […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 12, 2024
Via: PharmaphorumThe fast-track designation from the US regulator recognises that bepirovirsen is the only single agent in phase 3 that has shown the potential to achieve a “functional cure” when combined with standard CHB therapies based on oral nucleoside or nucleotide […]
February 8, 2024
Via: Drugs.comA doctor or nurse might be the only person capable of convincing a vaccine-hesitant person to get the COVID jab, a new study shows. Those who trust the medical profession are most likely to get vaccinated against COVID, despite their […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 8, 2024
Via: Biopharma DiveCRISPR gene editing captured headlines in recent months with the landmark approval of Casgevy, the first medicine made from the Nobel Prize-winning technology. But that milestone was only part of a larger story, of which an emerging generation of drugmakers […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 7, 2024
Via: Biopharma DiveAstraZeneca is ramping up in cell therapy after a late entrance to the field. In 2022, it made its first significant acquisition in the area, buying up privately held Neogene Therapeutics. And the follow year, it formed a partnership with […]
February 6, 2024
Via: Drugs.comWhen getting vaccines, switching arms for each dose may produce greater immunity than having the jabs delivered into the same arm. That’s the finding from a new study that looked at the first two doses of COVID vaccines. Those who […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 5, 2024
Via: PharmaphorumOn the strength of the results, 4DMT is planning to start a phase 3 trial of the gene therapy by the end of the first quarter of 2025. The data from the phase 2 PRISM study comes from a cohort […]
February 5, 2024
Via: PMLiVER21, which uses an adjuvant developed by Novavax to boost immune response, became the second malaria vaccine to be prequalified by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) in December 2023, following the organisation’s prequalification of the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in July 2022. […]
February 2, 2024
Via: Biopharma DiveAnother biotechnology company has hit Wall Street via an initial public offering, the third to do so this year in an uptick of IPO activity that suggests rebounding investor interest in life sciences stocks. Alto Neuroscience raised about $129 million […]
February 2, 2024
Via: Biopharma DiveArch Venture Partners, one of the biotechnology sector’s most prolific company creators, is raising a new $3 billion fund, according to a regulatory filing. The fund, which would be Arch’s 13th, is being put together less than two years after […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 1, 2024
Via: Biopharm InternationalOn Jan. 30, 2024, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Regeneron) announced the formation of a new R&D unit, Regeneron Cell Medicines, founded on an agreement with 2seventy bio, a US-based immuno-oncology cell therapy company. Under the agreement, Regeneron acquires full development and commercialization […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
February 1, 2024
Via: Biopharm InternationalFDA published final guidance on Jan. 30, 2024 that provides consideration for the development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell products. According to FDA, “[CAR T-cell] products are human gene therapy products in which the T cell specificity is genetically […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
January 31, 2024
Via: Biopharm InternationalFDA published a final guidance document, Human Gene Therapy Products Incorporating Human Genome Editing, on Jan. 30, 2024. The document provides recommendations for developing gene therapy products incorporating genome editing (GE) of human somatic cells. Recommendations include information needed in […]
Cell and Gene Therapy, Industry
January 30, 2024
Via: Biopharma DiveRegeneron Pharmaceuticals is expanding its cell therapy research, announcing a deal Tuesday to acquire the drug pipeline of 2seventy Bio and bring on many of the smaller biotechnology company’s employees. The experimental cell therapies Regeneron acquires will be housed in […]