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A step closer to ‘clinical trial in a dish’ for Alzheimer’s  

Drug Discovery World

Grown in vitro, these cells can provide patient specific human brain models from a large cohort of AD patients – to create a ‘clinical trial in a dish’. The recent US Federal Food and Drug Administration Agency (FDA) Modernization Act 2.0

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Intellia Gets FDA Clearance to Start First Ever Phase III Trial for an In Vivo CRISPR Drug

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Clinical-stage genome editing company Intellia Therapeutics has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to start a pivotal phase III trial of NTLA-2001 for the treatment of transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy.

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Single-course in vivo base editing therapy proven to lower cholesterol

Drug Discovery World

A Phase Ib trial has shown low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reductions up to 55% and blood PCSK9 protein reductions up to 84% after a single infusion of Verve Therapeutics’ Verve-101. Dose-dependent LDL-C reductions, a validated measure of clinical efficacy for this patient population, were observed one month after treatment.

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How Much Do You Know About in silico Trials?

XTalks

Conventional in vitro and in vivo studies are used in the drug development pipeline. This involves the use of an individualized computer simulation for medical device or drug development. Therefore, companies can evaluate their drug candidates or medical device products in “virtual patients” before assessing them in humans.

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Avrobio receives orphan drug designation for Hunter syndrome gene therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

Avrobio has received orphan drug designation for its gene therapy, AVR-RD-05, from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPSII) or Hunter syndrome. The company noted that this gene therapy is the fourth one to receive orphan drug designation.

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This week in drug discovery (6-10 March)

Drug Discovery World

Perhaps most interestingly this week, after previous caution over in vivo gene therapy trials, the FDA has given the go ahead to Intellia Therapeutics to study NTLA-2002 in hereditary angioedema (HAE). The post This week in drug discovery (6-10 March) appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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This week in drug discovery (25-29 September)  

Drug Discovery World

Immunotherapy has taken centre stage this week, with several announcements relating to regulatory approval, investment and research results for antibody and CAR-T therapies, perhaps most significantly, encouraging early-stage data for the first in vivo CAR-T therapy. The top stories: €27.3M

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