pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2021

Two years after starting to work together, Novo Nordisk and Dicerna have selected the first candidate from a joint project to find new, gene-silencing drugs for liver-related cardiometabolic diseases. In 2019 the Danish company also licensed a preclinical-stage, small-molecule candidate for NASH from Japan’s UBE.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 1, 2022

The US biotech has just reported phase 2 trial results with the small, interfering RNA (siRNA) gene-silencing drug showing that it an cause a 90% or greater reduction in Lp(a) levels – a risk factor for cardiovascular disease – that was sustained over 48 weeks of follow-up.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The FDA has approved Alnylam’s gene silencing drug Oxlumo, the first treatment for primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), an ultra-rare and life-threatening genetic disorder. Alnylam is hoping that revenue will stream from its new products and payments from Novartis, which owns the rights to cholesterol lowering drug inclisiran.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 31, 2023

Gene therapy company uniQure has entered into a global licensing agreement with Apic Bio for APB-102 to treat patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1). APB-102 is designed to be a one-time, intrathecally administered gene therapy for ALS patients.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

million ($22 million) in second-round financing as it prepares to start clinical trials of its lead drug candidate INT-1B3 for solid tumours. The start of dosing in the phase 1/1b trial of the drug has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but recruitment of the target 80 participants with advanced solid tumours is reported to be ongoing.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The Swiss pharma group already sells one gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) – Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec) – for which it licensed ex-US rights from Spark Therapeutics (now part of Roche) in 2018. Novartis’ big move in the gene therapy market came when it bought AveXis for $8.7

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 8, 2022

The passport means that LentiGlobin will be reviewed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) via the new innovative licensing and access pathway (ILAP) introduced in 2020, which reduces the review time for a new medicine to 150 days.

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