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bluebird bio wins back-to-back landmark FDA approvals for first-in-class gene therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Spark Therapeutics’ Luxturna, indicated for inherited retinal disease (IRD), was the first gene therapy to be approved, in 2017, with a price tag of $850,000 for each eye. Gene therapies for rare inherited diseases are very expensive, as they tend to be the only therapeutic option available to patients and are often curative.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

Drug Discovery World

Stefan Ewert, PhD, Associate Director, Biologics Center, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, on: ‘Computational counterselection identifies nonspecific therapeutic biologic candidates’. The panel discussion will be hosted by chairperson Erasmus and Greiff on the current state of AI in antibody therapeutics.

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