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Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ gene therapy receives FDA RMAT designation

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It is also licensed by Spain’s Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras, the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz and the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas. The therapy has also received orphan drug and fast-track designations.

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Novartis announces lift of partial clinical trial hold and plans to initiate a new, pivotal Phase 3 study of intrathecal OAV-101 in older patients with SMA

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that OAV-101 intrathecal (IT) clinical trials for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients may proceed, thereby lifting the partial clinical trial hold initiated in October 2019. Novartis today announced that the U.S. SVP, Chief Medical Officer, Novartis Gene Therapies. “We

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

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Approximately 72 percent of rare diseases are genetic, and around 70 percent of rare genetic diseases emerge in childhood. The webinar included operational strategies for these trials from Laura Omoboni, MS, Executive Director of Clinical Trial Management. Rare diseases can often be progressive, chronic and fatal.

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First Patient Dosed in Monalizumab Phase 3 Clinical Trial Triggers $50M Payment From AstraZeneca

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Additional details on the INTERLINK-1 clinical trial can be found here. Including the $50 million payment triggered by dosing the first patient in the Phase 3 INTERLINK-1 clinical trial, Innate Pharma has received $400 million to date. . MARSEILLE, France, Oct. months and a median overall survival of 5.8

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How patient-on-a-chip tech could be the future of drug discovery

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The low rate of success is one of the contributors to the high cost and the slow R&D process that takes promising compounds through early testing and into the clinic. Once selected, Quris can in-license them, progress them through to phase 1 trials and, those that succeed, can be licensed to pharma companies.

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Qalsody (Tofersen) Becomes First-of-Its-Kind Treatment for ALS

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This makes Qalsody the first approved treatment to target a genetic cause of ALS. Tofersen was discovered by Ionis Pharmaceuticals, and Biogen licensed tofersen from Ionis under a collaborative development and license agreement. The recommended dosage of Qalsody is 100 mg (15 mL) per administration. What is SOD1 -ALS?

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Burning Rock Announces an Exclusive in-Licensing of a Risk Stratification Test for Early Stage Lung-Cancer Patients from Oncocyte in China

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15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR, the “Company” or “Burning Rock”) today announced that it entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Oncocyte Corporation (NYSE American: OCX) to bring DetermaRx , a risk stratification test for early stage lung cancer patients, to China.