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RVAC and University of Pennsylvania to develop mRNA vaccines

Pharmaceutical Technology

The partnership will focus on developing potential new vaccines to treat certain selected autoimmune indications, as well as food allergies. RVAC Medicines chief scientific officer Dr Jason Zhang said: “We are very glad to work with Dr Weissman on potential mRNA treatment approaches for a broad spectrum of allergy and autoimmune diseases.

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Cellular benefits of gene therapy seen decades after treatment

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An international collaboration between Great Ormond Street Hospital, the UCL GOS Institute for Child Health and Harvard Medical School has shown that the beneficial effects of gene therapy can be seen decades after the transplanted blood stem cells has been cleared by the body.

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Gene therapy offers potential cure to children born without an immune system

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Study shows treatment developed by international team restored immune function in more than 95% of patients in three clinical trials Credit: Ann Johansson/UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated 48 of 50 (..)

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Gene therapy offers a potential cure to children born without immune system

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An international team of researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a gene therapy that successfully treated 48 out of 50 children with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency that leaves them without an immune system.

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Researchers devise more efficient, enduring CAR gene therapy to combat HIV

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FINDINGS A UCLA research team has shown that using a truncated form of the CD4 molecule as part of a gene therapy to combat HIV yielded superior and longer-lasting results in mouse models than previous similar therapies using the CD4 molecule.

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FDA approves Phase 1 trial for HIV gene therapy

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The FDA has approved a request from American Gene Technologies to begin a clinical study into its HIV gene therapy. The treatment is being researched by scientists collaborating from American Gene Technologies, the Laboratory of Immunoregulation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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GreenLight and US NIH partner to develop Covid-19 vaccine for variants

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company will jointly design and analyse messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccines in partnership with the NIH unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Vaccine Research Center (VRC). Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.