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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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Umoja and IASO partner to develop therapies for haematological malignancies

Pharmaceutical Technology

The robust expertise of IASO in monitoring possibly best-in-class CARs leveraging its fully-human antibody discovery platform (IMARS), quickly conducting clinical trials and its in-house GMP facility for producing plasmid, virus vector and CAR-T cells intends to make its new therapies available to larger population across the world.

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RayzeBio raises $160m to advance cancer radiopharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company is currently progressing its lead drug candidate, RYZ101, into clinical trials for various solid tumour indications. A Phase Ib clinical trial of the drug is underway, enrolling subjects with neuroendocrine tumours, and Phase III trials are anticipated to commence next year.

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Spotlighting Lupus Awareness Month: CAR-T Technology Creates New Avenues for Treatment of a Devastating Disease

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CAR-T Cells Target Harmful B Cells in Lupus CAR-T cell technology, which uses genetic engineering to direct white blood cells to attack specific molecular targets, was originally proposed for treatment of HIV infection and hematological malignancies. The currently approved CD-19 CAR products are autologous, ex vivo cellular therapies.

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Editas grabs orphan drug status for sickle cell disease CRISPR therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company is studying EDT-301 in sickle cell disease in a Phase I/II RUBY study (NCT04853576), and is on track to provide a clinical update by mid-2023. The company is studying EDT-301 in sickle cell disease in a Phase I/II RUBY study (NCT04853576), and is on track to provide a clinical update by mid-2023. g/dL and 45.4%

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Only non-US company joins cancer drug discovery consortium

Drug Discovery World

The CBC is the discovery engine of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Experimental Therapeutics (NExT) Program, administered through the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR), a federal national laboratory sponsored by the NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health, and currently operated by Leidos Biomedical Research.

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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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California-based Sangamo Therapeutics is one such company that believes in the powerful potential of in vivo genome editing and regulation, together known as genome engineering, and has built up a sizable preclinical pipeline of genome regulation treatments for diseases such as Huntington’s disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).