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10 Key Learnings from Successful Cellular and Gene Therapy Trials for Rare Diseases

XTalks

Melanie Blank, clinical team leader for General Medicine Branch 1 at the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Division of Clinical Evaluation and Pharmacology/Toxicology (DCEPT), the agency is seeing one or two new applications coming in every week for new gene therapies for different diseases.

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Strategies for Streamlining Small Molecule Formulation Development When Bridging from Candidate Selection to First-in-Human Clinical Testing

Pharmaceutical Technology

The continued high level of interest in small molecules presents multiple opportunities to select a candidate that is ‘developable’, with subsequent rapid progression toward first-in-human (FIH) clinical testing. We start by using in-silico modeling of any pre-existing data associated with the lead compounds.

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Editas Medicine Announces the FDA has Cleared Initiation of the EDIT-301 Clinical TrialEDIT-301 is in development as a best-in-class, durable medicine for people living with sickle cell disease

The Pharma Data

The Company is required to develop and submit to the FDA an improved potency assay prior to enrolling the efficacy phase of the RUBY trial. EDIT-301 is an experimental, ex vivo gene editing cell medicine in development for the treatment of sickle cell disease. Clinical trial materials are being manufactured by Editas Medicine.

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BioSpace Global Roundup, Oct. 15

The Pharma Data

AOP anticipates new opportunities in Austria as a hub for research and business. Priothera will use the funds to progress the clinical development of mocravimod, a modulator of sphingosine 1 phosphate (S1P) receptors, to enhance the curative potential of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for treating AML.