Drug Discovery World

MAY 17, 2024

From a weight loss drug that prevents heart attacks and a gene therapy that restores hearing, to a vaccine that can treat viruses that don’t exist yet, our chosen news stories this week all represent potential breakthroughs in their respective fields.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease, approving two on the same day. Both gene therapies are approved for individuals 12 years of age and older with sickle cell disease. Casgevy is also the first ever CRISPR/Cas9-based therapy approved in the US.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Novartis has shouldered its way into the in vivo gene editing category via a deal with US biotech Precision BioSciences, focused on a therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD). Other companies – notably Vertex Pharma/CRISPR Therapeutics and bluebird bio – are taking an ex vivo approach to SCD and thalassaemia and are much closer to market.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Vertex Pharma and partner CRISPR Therapeutics will start a rolling marketing application in the US for their gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta thalassaemia later this year. The time places exa-cel in pole position to become the first drug developed based on CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to reach the market.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

After spending almost an entire day deliberating the safety of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ and CRISPR Therapeutics’ CRISPR-based gene therapy exa-cel for sickle cell disease, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel appears to be satisfied with what it saw. CRISPR works as genetic scissors to edit parts of the genome.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 17, 2021

LONDON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Ixaka Ltd , an integrated cell and gene therapy company focused on the natural power of the body to cure disease, launches today. Our focus is now on accelerating progress to help realise the potential for durable and curative cell and gene therapies. 18, 2021 09:00 UTC. A total of $15.4

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 10, 2022

Bayer has bolstered its cell and gene therapy platform by securing access to a CRISPR-based gene-editing platform developed by US biotech Mammoth Biosciences. CRISPR drugs can be used to modify the expression of disease-associated proteins in the body, for example, by correcting a mutation in a specific gene.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Scribe Therapeutics, a start-up focusing on gene-editing using CRISPR/Cas9, has burst onto the biotech scene with a $415 million deal with Biogen. It will also use a variation of CRISPR/Cas9 known as CRISPR/Casx which is smaller, making it easier to deliver using viral vectors for example, and more efficient at modifying genes in the body.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This includes analyzing how drug combinations may impact individual patients or groups of patients before even entering a clinical trial. With a staggering 90 percent of drugs failing in clinical trials, AI has the potential to help improve these statistics.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong looks at the cell and gene therapy landscape, examining the challenges facing developers and the trends we can expect to see throughout the year. . There’s no doubt that cell and gene therapies present some of the most exciting opportunities for emerging drugs. billion, compared to $19.9 Cancer is king .

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WCG Clinical

MAY 28, 2024

Recent headlines have highlighted the potential for Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-based therapies to provide clinical benefits to persons affected by lupus. Recently clinical investigators have found a way to turn what was an undesirable side effect in cancer patients into a clinical benefit for persons with certain autoimmune conditions.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

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. SVP, Chief Medical Officer, Novartis Gene Therapies. “We

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 14, 2023

Lung-I Cheng, Vice President and Head of Cell & Gene Therapy Service Line at AmerisourceBergen, and Cori Gorman, Senior Director of CMC and Regulatory Affairs at Biopharma Excellence, offer advice on navigating the different and sometimes contradictory regulatory requirements in the US and EU. billion in 2020 to $15.5

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Delveinsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

However, they have only shrunk tumors in about half of patients who took them, along with chemotherapy, in the clinical trials. Avrobio gene therapy eradicates toxic substrate in Fabry patient. Enhancing the response to immuno-oncology in pancreatic cancer. They reported their observations in the journal JCI Insight.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 24, 2023

By Luisa Sterkel & Joana Loureiro , Tenthpin Consultants The promise and potential of cell and gene therapies (CGT) has emerged in the recent past and currently over 1.500 CGT are registered for clinical trials holding great hope for the treatment of challenging and uncurable diseases.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 20, 2023

2,3 These data are among a Zolgensma data set being presented during the 2023 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Clinical and Scientific Conference, which also include, in part, real-world evidence data from the RESTORE registry. Children in LT-001 treated after SMA symptom onset maintained or achieved additional milestones up to 7.5

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 4, 2023

Read more: FDA Fast Track Designation for retinitis pigmentosa treatment Drug candidate for TUBB4a leukodystrophy, SynaptixBio The FDA has granted Rare Paediatric Disease (RPD) Designation to SynaptixBio’s drug candidate for TUBB4a leukodystrophy – a genetic and debilitating condition which mainly affects babies and young children.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 18, 2023

Since its discovery in 2012, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology has revolutionised the biomedicine and cell and gene therapy fields, providing a versatile tool for precise and efficient genome editing.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Organ-chips combine cell culture with microfluidics to emulate the biological forces of different organ tissues and/or disease states, allowing pharmaceutical researchers to determine a drug candidates’ efficacy and toxicity ahead of clinical trials. Could organ-chips replace other research methods? Not yet, according to Ewart.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

Based in Seattle, Washington, Sana focuses on in vivo and ex vivo cell engineering platforms to develop therapies for cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, CNS disorders, and genetic diseases. Launched in 2019, the company raised $700 million in June 2020 in its initial financing.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 30, 2023

Through the use of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived cells, we can improve translation and reduce risk of clinical failure. Through the use of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived cells, we can improve translation and reduce risk of clinical failure.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Kevin Hemphill, R&D Manager at PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery explores how base editing has emerged as an attractive gene editing option for researchers wanting to develop stem cell-based therapies. Adult fibroblasts were cultured in a cocktail of transcription factors to reactivate embryonic gene expression patterns 2.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to Medicine Discovery Catapult, these include: “Navigating the complexity of the CNS; understanding the disease pathology, and accessing predictable in vitro and in vivo cell models 2 ”. For example, it can take up to it three years to recruit enough participants for a dementia clinical trial. to £104.7m

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Genetically modified T cells stimulated with IL2 are now administered as cell therapy for multiple cancer cell types with beneficial results 3,4. Over 250 clinical trials are currently in progress, and novel immuno-oncological treatments are already proving to be successful. This continues to be the standard of care.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 10, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the initiation of the safety phase of the Company’s EDIT-301 clinical trial, and the Company can begin dosing patients. 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.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 27, 2020

PARIS–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Regulatory News: Lysogene (FR0013233475 – LYS) (Paris:LYS), a phase 3 gene therapy platform company targeting central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today reports positive biomarker data from the ongoing AAVance clinical trial with LYS-SAF302 for the treatment of MPS IIIA (NCT03612869).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Gene splicing using nucleases. They are engineered to cut specific genomic targets in order to modify the expression of single genes and proteins.

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Delveinsight

JANUARY 12, 2021

Birinapant is a clinical-stage SMAC mimetic that degrades Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs) by binding to them, ultimately leading to cell death in tumor cells. The companies believe that their candidate in its original IgG format has shown potent neutralization activity in in vitro assays and in an in vivo animal model.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

Verve Therapeutics and Eli Lilly and Company have entered an exclusive research partnership to advance the former’s preclinical stage in vivo gene editing programme targeting lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) to treat atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Lilly will provide funding for the Phase I clinical trials.

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Delveinsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angelman syndrome (AS) is a complex genetic rare disorder that affects the nervous system. Angelman syndrome is a result of the missing or dysfunctional gene known as UBE3A. The gene is responsible for the normal and healthy development of an individual physically as well intellectually.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 18, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for bluebird bio ’s Zynteglo (betibeglogene autotemcel, beti-cel) for the treatment of the underlying genetic cause of beta?thalassemia A custom-made, one-dose gene therapy, Zynteglo is indicated for such patients who need red blood cells (RBCs) transfusions on a regular basis.

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Roots Analysis

AUGUST 31, 2023

Overview of Gene Switch The notion that genes might be turned on and off was discovered several decades ago when studies revealed that E. Gene switches are sites on genes where regulatory molecules can bind to trigger transcription process, leading to expression of a particular gene.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 22, 2022

For example, in randomised clinical trials of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), pembrolizumab has been shown to be effective in slowing down disease progression and improving survival rates 1. demonstrated the ability to model clinical responses to ACT in autologous HIS mice 4. Jespersen et al.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 8, 2022

Data from the research were recently included in the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the FDA to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial for COVID-19. Data from the research were recently included in the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the FDA to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial for COVID-19.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These therapies, which utilise human cells to replace diseased or damaged cells or use engineered cells to act as therapies for a specific disease, have become more common in recent years, with approvals and clinical trials increasing. It’s safe to say there is a lot of potential for cell therapies.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

AI-based diagnostic software and clinical trials technology proved to be two of the most attractive health investments, alongside mental health and wellness and medical imaging companies. . But has its application been as revolutionary as industry bods predicted? . The simple answer is no. The unavailability of good data .

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 10, 2023

This stage is more highly regulated and consists of both preclinical testing and clinical trials. Until recently, drug carcinogenicity assessment required two different in vivo studies, one of which was typically a two-year lifetime study in rats. Drug discovery and development is an arduous process that can cost upwards of $2.6

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