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$175M financing will support development of in vivo CAR-T therapies

Drug Discovery World

The proceeds will be used to advance CPTX2309, Capstan’s lead in vivo chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) candidate, to early clinical proof-of-concept in autoimmune disorders, and to further develop Capstan’s tLNP pipeline. Biotechnology company Capstan Therapeutics has raised $175 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing.

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Intellia Gets FDA Clearance to Start First Ever Phase III Trial for an In Vivo CRISPR Drug

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Intellia said NTLA-2001 is the first investigational in vivo CRISPR-based gene editing therapy cleared to enter late-stage clinical development. As an in vivo therapy, it can edit genes inside the body rather than in cells extracted from patients. ATTR amyloidosis is a rare, progressive and fatal disease.

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Moderna partners with Life Edit for mRNA gene editing therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Moderna has entered a strategic research and development partnership with ElevateBio’s Life Edit Therapeutics to discover and develop new in-vivo mRNA gene editing therapies. Our novel editing systems have the potential to precisely modify gene targets for both in vivo and ex vivo therapeutic development.”

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Sana Bio’s $150 Million IPO Expected to Provide Market Valuation of $10 Billion

The Pharma Data

But that number doesn’t quite reflect the company’s likely market valuation , which is expected to be between $9 billion and $12 billion. 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.

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Overcoming diverging regulatory expectations to bring CGTs to market

Drug Discovery World

While CGT is still an emerging market, its growth has accelerated over the last five years, resulting in a wave of products approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Driven by the rapid pace of innovation, the market for CGTs is expected to grow from $4.4 billion in 2020 to $15.5

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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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ESMO 2022: the evolution of TIL therapy – a highly promising approach

Pharmaceutical Technology

As an autologous cell therapy, manufacturing the infusion product is a highly specialised process involving tumour harvest and the extraction and large-scale ex vivo expansion of TILs. The use of engineered immune cytokines that selectively induce the expansion of TILs is being investigated as an alternative to IL-2 stimulation.