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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XTalks

JUNE 30, 2023

It’s been a big week for cell and gene therapy approvals in the US, including a much-awaited approval for one to treat hemophilia A, the most common form of hemophilia. Hemophilia A is a rare genetic bleeding disorder that is caused by a mutation in the gene that encodes the key blood clotting protein factor VIII (FVIII).

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first gene therapy to treat people with hemophilia B, an inherited bleeding disorder , STAT writes. And finally, no matter how full you get, there’s always room for dessert — and yes, for an extra helping of gratitude. Enjoy the holiday.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In a pivotal approval, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the nod to a new gene therapy called Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovecfor) for the treatment of adults with the genetic blood disorder hemophilia B (congenital Factor IX deficiency). With a list price of $3.5 With a list price of $3.5

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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. It was first approved in the US in 2019 to treat children below the age of two with SMA.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ Adzynma, the first recombinant protein product for prophylactic (preventive) or on‑demand enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in adult and pediatric patients with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (cTTP), an ultra-rare blood clotting disorder.

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XTalks

APRIL 11, 2024

After backing from the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) last month, Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) scored FDA approvals for the use of their B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-targeting CAR T-cell therapies as earlier line treatment options for multiple myeloma.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

New FDA-Approved Treatments For HIV HIV treatment involves the administration of combined antiretroviral therapy (ART) to effectively suppress the viral load, maintain or enhance immune function and reduce the risk of opportunistic infections and cancers commonly associated with HIV. aiming to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 3, 2022

DMD is a severe, progressive muscle-wasting genetic condition caused by the lack of a protein called dystrophin. A gene therapy, it permits the body to read over the DNA mutation and still continue to produce dystrophin. The post Translarna not approved by NICE for DMD on NHS appeared first on.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In a statement outlining its investigation, the FDA said it received reports of the T-cell malignancies from clinical trials and post-marketing safety monitoring. Depending on the findings of the FDA’s probe, the agency could require the risk to be included in a black-box warning, which is the highest safety alert level on a drug label.

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Advarra

JANUARY 11, 2024

Adoptive T Cell therapies, therapeutic antibodies, and immunomodulatory proteins represent just some of the potentially beneficial treatment strategies for successful mRNA cancer trials. One strategy proposed the use of synthetic mRNA or modified mRNA analogs, which can enhance the stability and protein expression of mRNA.

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XTalks

MAY 15, 2023

Chiesi Global Rare Diseases in collaboration with Protalix BioTherapeutics announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of their new medication Elfabrio (pegunigalsidase alfa-iwxj) for the treatment of Fabry disease. Genetic confirmatory testing is then conducted to identify the specific mutations in the GLA gene.

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XTalks

MARCH 1, 2024

Causes can include aging (presbycusis), exposure to loud noise, genetic predisposition, certain medications (ototoxic drugs) and various diseases. While there is no cure for most types of tinnitus, treatments can help manage the condition, including sound therapy, counseling and hearing aids.

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XTalks

AUGUST 17, 2020

As DMD is caused by a lack of functional dystrophin protein, which supports and strengthens muscle fibers, therapies designed to treat this rare genetic disorder have focused on exon skipping to avoid the area of the dystrophin gene that is mutated and produce a nearly full-length dystrophin protein.

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Roots Analysis

JANUARY 14, 2024

Given the ongoing scientific advancements and the rise of FDA-approved biologics, the pharmaceutical industry seems to be approaching the era of biologics. Insect cell lines have been frequently used as recombinant protein expression systems. They are easy to culture and are known to generate high yields of recombinant proteins.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The presentations included additional results from the RAINBOWFISH study, evaluating the efficacy and safety of Evrysdi® (risdiplam) in babies with pre-symptomatic spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) from birth to 6 weeks aged and data supporting the continued clinical investigation of gene therapy, SRP-9001, in Duchenne dystrophy (DMD).

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XTalks

APRIL 12, 2021

Like other neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementias, Parkinson’s disease research has been immensely challenging for biotechs, with a high rate of late-stage attrition in trials leading to a lack of disease-modifying therapies being approved. Axovant Gene Therapies. Prevail Therapeutics.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 24, 2020

From rare disease drug approvals to treatments involving immunotherapies and gene therapies and awarding of a Nobel Prize to the inventors of the gene-editing tool CRISPR, 2020 was a year of great activity and productivity despite the backdrop of the pandemic. CRISPR Gene Editing Inventors Win Nobel Prize.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 21, 2021

US biotech bluebird bio has had a challenging time in the last few months, so a recommendation for EU approval of its gene therapy for adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) will give it a lift. The treatment restore the activity of a protein that breaks down the toxic metabolites.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Although recently approved drugs can treat seizures more safely, they do not treat the comorbidities that patients experience. Several biotech companies and researchers are now exploring medical devices and gene therapies to address not just common forms of epilepsy, but also rare conditions such as Dravet Syndrome.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Eli Lilly has agreed to buy hearing loss gene therapy developer Akouos in a deal that could value the company at around $610 million – if its lead candidate progresses as hoped in the clinic. There are no approved drug treatments for this type of hearing loss. The buyout – for $12.50 The buyout – for $12.50

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 25, 2020

In August 2017, Bristol Myers Squibb received full approval in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved test. IDHIFA is the first and only FDA-approved therapy for patients with R/R AML and positive for an IDH2 mutation, which represents up to 19 percent of AML patients.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 11, 2023

Kerstin Pohl , Senior Global Marketing Manager, Gene Therapy & Nucleic Acid at SCIEX, looks at the application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for analysing host cell proteins. Host cell proteins (HCPs) – proteins derived from the host cells used for viral production—are one class of process-related impurities.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 10, 2022

Next, the advent of antibody treatments in 1997 created the first targeted cancer therapy 2. Finally, in 2017, after years of improving T cell engineering techniques, the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy received FDA approval. CAR T cells are T cells that have been trained to attack tumours.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Everyone’s genetic makeup differs, and each person’s cancer experience is unique to them – how cancer develops, how fast it spreads, which drugs it responds to, and more. Cancer cells and tumours behave differently than normal cells and have changes in their genes that make them different from an individual’s normal cells.

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XTalks

AUGUST 30, 2022

We know that a lot of different pathologies, especially as we’ve entered the era of molecular medicine and gene therapies, cause many of the same symptoms and work through final common pathways. What About Small Proteins and Antibodies Reaching Extracellular CNS Targets? Reporter genes to understand dose and distribution.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 14, 2023

One example we are following with anticipation are the two FDA approvals for the first gene therapies for sickle cell disease. Besides looking at donor characteristics, our platform, which we call Excellos 360TM, includes the assessment of metabolic and effector potential of cells, and genetic analysis.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 3, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Tenaya Therapeutics’ gene therapy TN-201 a fast track designation for the treatment of myosin binding protein C3 (MYBPC3)-associated hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Mutations in this gene cause a decrease in the maximal force of cardiac contractions.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Leukodystrophies are rare and almost exclusively genetic diseases characterised by a process of demyelination (damage to the myelin sheath) of the central and peripheral nervous system. They focused on miRNAs, which regulate multiple target proteins controlling the cellular processes in the amygdala.

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