Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 23, 2022

A Phase I/II clinical trial targeting a treatment for Huntington’s Disease (HD) using a gene therapy has been given the clearance to go ahead in France. . The disease is caused by anomalous repeating mutations in the huntingtin gene leading to abnormal protein aggregates in nerve cells.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Sara Donnelly, Director of Research Planning and Business Development at PhoenixBio USA explores why the right pre-clinical model is essential for teams wanting to advance adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapies.

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MAY 30, 2024

Authors: Rich Worldwide Clinical Trials Exec. This trend is on the rise despite recent disappointments with clinical trial outcomes, which have the potential to destabilize the industry in the short term regarding drug development strategy and optimal study designs. Director, Therapeutic Area Medical Lead.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

While clinical trials are becoming more complex, oncology trials have generally had a greater level of complexity than trials in many other disease spaces. Despite this, the number of oncology trials worldwide has increased dramatically over the past two decades. Site Challenges in Oncology Clinical Trials.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2023

s Mark Tobolowsky co-authored the peer-reviewed article “ Microdystrophin Expression as a Surrogate Endpoint for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trials ” in the recently published edition of Human Gene Therapy. Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.’s

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XTalks

AUGUST 30, 2022

The hemophilia A gene therapy Roctavian delivers a functional gene to enable the body to make an essential blood clotting protein on its own. A lack of sufficient functioning factor VIII and factor IX blood clotting proteins would result in the development of hemophilia A and hemophilia B, respectively.

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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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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 19, 2023

AOC 1020 has been designed for the treatment of the underlying cause of FSHD, which is caused by the abnormal expression of a gene known as double homeobox 4 or DUX4. This DUX4 protein abnormal expression leads to modifications in gene expression in muscle cells which are associated with progressive muscle function loss in FSHD patients.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Different approaches that are studied include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), and gene therapies, which are in early clinical trials. This includes Denali Therapeutics whose treatment TAK-594/DNL593 is in a Phase I/II trial. This protein promotes lysosomal function. The trial features four cohorts.

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XTalks

JUNE 28, 2023

Gene therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have been an area of intense research and Sarepta’s Elevidys is now the first one to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). DMD is caused by the absence of dystrophin, a protein that helps maintain the integrity of muscle cells.

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BioPharma Reporter

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Scientists have used gene therapy and a newly developed light-sensing protein to restore sight in mice: with the technology to start clinical trials in the US later this year.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. BacTRL Gene Therapy Platform.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 29, 2021

Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. Zinc fingers. The exact mechanism depends on the disease in question.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Researchers have found that a topical gene therapy gel helps heal wounds in patients with life-threatening blistering skin disease epidermolysis bullosa (EB). . The post ‘Life-changing’ topical gene therapy gel heals EB wounds appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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XTalks

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. It also affects Hispanic Americans, but at a lower prevalence.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As December 2022 closed out, Pfizer announced positive top-line results from its phase 3 BENEGENE-2 study evaluating fidanacogene elaparvovec (SPK-9001), its investigational gene therapy for treatment of adult males with moderately severe to severe haemophilia B.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 19, 2021

Gain Therapeutics has priced its initial public offering, raising more than $40 million for its computational drug discovery platform and pipeline of drugs for diseases associated with protein misfolding. . The post Protein misfolding specialist Gain nets $40m from IPO appeared first on. and valuing the company at around $130 million.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Astellas has signed another bolt-on deal to build its gene therapy pipeline, agreeing a deal with Dyno Therapeutics to tap into its adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector platform for delivering genes to skeletal and cardiac muscle. Those safety issues have hit Astellas’ aspirations in gene therapy directly.

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XTalks

AUGUST 19, 2022

Bluebird bio’s gene therapy Zynteglo (betibeglogene autotemcel, beti-cel) has been awarded a much anticipated approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with beta thalassemia who need regular blood transfusions. Bluebird has a total of three gene therapies in its pipeline.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 13, 2021

The first UK patient has enrolled on Pfizer’s phase 3 trial for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy. The first patient was recruited in The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of three UK sites for the clinical trial and part of 55 globally, across 15 countries.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 15, 2023

In a closely contested debate, a US Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee (AdCom) panel voted eight to six in favour of the accelerated approval for Sarepta Therapeutics’ Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene transfer therapy delandistrogene moxeparvovec (SRP-9001).

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved HEMGENIX (etranacogene dezaparvovec-drlb), the first and only one-time gene therapy for appropriate adults with haemophilia B. . The FDA approval is supported by results from the ongoing HOPE-B trial, the largest gene therapy trial in haemophilia B to date.

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XTalks

JUNE 8, 2021

Novartis’ Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec) gene therapy has been making significant strides as of late, including dosing of the first Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) patient with the treatment in the UK last week. SMA is caused by mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 ( SMN1) gene, which along with the SMN2 gene, encode the SMN protein.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 25, 2023

The new compounds imitate the sex hormone estrogen activity on a cell protein known as estrogen receptor-beta (ER-beta), which is known to suppress cancer. The researchers’ team is expecting that ER-beta might help to treat GBM, as it suppresses cancer by activating thousands of genes which together have tumour-stunting effects.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Adstiladrin is an adenoviral vector-based gene therapy that is non-replicating, so it cannot multiply in human cells. Boorjian, MD, Carl Rosen Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Mayo Clinic, and lead investigator on the recent clinical trial of Adstiladrin, in the company’s press release.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 27, 2023

Regenerative medicines in early-stage development (preclinical, discovery, or investigational new drug [IND]/ clinical trial application [CTA] filed status) have seen a change in drug targets compared to therapies in late-stage development (Phase II to pre-registration stage).

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Such information can reveal details about tumor staging, tumor progression, heterogeneity, gene mutations and clonal evolution. Liquid Biopsy Use in Oncology Clinical Trials. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that contain molecular cargoes (such as various proteins, RNAs and DNAs) specific to the origin cell.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The post EU-approved gene therapy reduced haemophilia bleeds by 64% appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). People living with haemophilia B currently require lifelong treatment of intravenous infusions of Factor IX to maintain sufficient levels, which can have a significant impact on their quality of life and wellbeing.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A team of researchers at Northwestern University in the US has devised a new platform for gene editing that could inform the future application of CRISPR-based therapeutics. They created a system to deliver the cargo required for generating the gene editing machine known as CRISPR-Cas9. High gene editing efficiency.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 8, 2020

has announced that it has acquired the rights to an investigational gene therapy, HMR59, from Hemera Biosciences, LLC designed to help treat a severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The gene therapy was developed to treat both dry and wet macular degeneration. Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Avrobio has received rare pediatric disease designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational gene therapy, AVR-RD-04, designed to treat cystinosis. AVR-RD-04 works by genetically modify a patient's hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to express the gene that encodes the cystinosin protein.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As gene editing technologies like CRISPR progress toward clinical study, researchers must continue to advance new approaches and address inherent challenges, explains Jon Chesnut, PhD, Senior Director, Cell Biology R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific. Early phase clinical trials for gene editing therapies.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 1, 2022

Sarepta is pressing forward with a bold plan to file with the FDA for accelerated approval of its gene therapy SRP-9001 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in the next few months, with a view to making it available in sometime around the middle of 2023. The post Sarepta says early filing for DMD gene therapy is back on appeared first on.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 17, 2024

Deepika Khedekar , Associate Centralized Clinical Trial Lead at IQVIA Inc, looks at the challenges of utilising artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology clinical research. MIT research 4 tells us a hard truth: about 95% of these trials fall short, leaving behind a trail of broken hopes for cancer patients each year.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Pfizer has called a halt to a clinical trial of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy as it investigates the unexpected death of a young male patient. AAV vectors are well-suited to gene therapies for DMD because they are effective at targeting muscle tissue.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Last week, Nature magazine published a paper detailing an in-situ study of Parkinson’s disease (PD), showing protein structural changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) between healthy individuals and Parkinson’s patients. So, the next logical step is to see what these genes do and try to correct deficit using drugs”, says Fasano.

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