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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).

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

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Melanie Blank, clinical team leader for General Medicine Branch 1 at the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Division of Clinical Evaluation and Pharmacology/Toxicology (DCEPT), the agency is seeing one or two new applications coming in every week for new gene therapies for different diseases.

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FDA-approved drug sensitises brain cancer cells to radiotherapy

Drug Discovery World

Researchers have discovered a clinical drug that sensitises glioblastoma (GBM) cells to radiotherapy and could replace the current standard of care. They showed that diacylglycerol kinase B (DGKB), a regulator of the intracellular level of diacylglycerol (DAG), was significantly suppressed in radioresistant GBM cells.

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COVID-19: Celltrion’s therapeutic option

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We have completed phase 2 trial of a multi-antibody drug for influenza, CT-P27, and since 2015 we have been developing a therapeutic antibody to treat the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), CT-P38. “All All of our processes, and also those of the entire healthcare ecosystem, including regulators, had to be accelerated.

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In the News: October Regulatory and Development Updates

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Labeling regulations prohibit reminder ads for products with boxed warnings, which the FDA requires when a drug product has very serious risks. Each month, Camargo’s “In the News” series highlights important changes and advancements in the regulatory and development space and explores how those changes could impact your program.

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The regulatory round-up: Eight key FDA decisions

Drug Discovery World

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has made several key drug decisions over the last few weeks. Here’s a summary. Orserdu (elacestrant), Stemline Therapeutics The first and only treatment specifically indicated for patients with ESR1 mutations in ER+, HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer was approved in the US in February.

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Overcoming diverging regulatory expectations to bring CGTs to market

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For example, the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) 3 , which regulates biological products for human use, differentiates between in vivo gene therapy (new genes are inserted into the body to target cells) and ex vivo gene therapy (cells are modified outside the body and then administered back into the patient).