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Cell therapy enables insulin independence without immunosuppression

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Preclinical data has demonstrated insulin independence following transplantation of hypoimmune (HIP) allogeneic primary islet cells without immunosuppression in a diabetic non-human primate (NHP). Following this, blood glucose levels in the diabetic NHP began to fluctuate and increase markedly, and insulin injections needed to be resumed.

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Tzield Gets FDA Nod to Become First Approved Drug to Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes

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Provention Bio’s Tzield (teplizumab) has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to delay the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes in adults and pediatric patients eight years of age and older who have stage 2 type 1 diabetes. Provention Bio came to a commercialization agreement with Sanofi last month to market the drug in the US.

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FDA fast tracks type 1 diabetes cell therapy from Vertex

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The therapy takes the form of stem cell-derived human pancreatic islet cells, which secrete insulin in the body in response to rising blood glucose. If VX-880 works, it could remove or reduce the reliance of patients with the disease on insulin injections.

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Type 1 Diabetes Vaccine: Does Diamyd Have a Winning Formula?

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In addition to the vaccine, the company is also developing an investigational drug called Remygen for the regeneration of endogenous insulin production and to improve hormonal response to hypoglycemia; trials to test the treatment are currently ongoing in patients that have been living with type 1 diabetes for more than five years.

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Vertex buys diabetes cell therapy rival ViaCyte for $320m

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Vertex’ therapy takes the form of stem cell-derived human pancreatic islet cells, which secrete insulin in the body in response to rising blood glucose. The first patient treated with the therapy saw their need for insulin reduce to almost zero, helping VX-880 claim a fast-track designation from the FDA.

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How will $41 million be used to fight chronic and age-related diseases? 

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The new funding will power the expansion of Juvena’s drug discovery platform and advance the company’s biologics pipeline targeting chronic and age-related diseases. . These limitations have constrained biopharma’s approach to studying the role of secreted proteins only as drug targets or biomarkers, rather than drug agents themselves. .

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Company Spotlight: Cue Biopharma Innovates in the Immunotherapy Space with its Immuno-STAT Platform

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chimeric receptor antigen [CAR] T cell) immune modulators (i.e. Immune checkpoint inhibitors : these are drugs that block immune checkpoints, allowing immune cells to elicit enhanced responses to cancer cells. Treatment vaccines : these boost the immune system responses to target cells.

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