The Pharma Data

JANUARY 12, 2021

In December, life sciences giant Bayer launched a cell and gene therapy platform within its pharmaceutical division in order to become a leading company within a rapidly emerging and evolving field that offers the potential of life-saving therapies. Photo courtesy of Bayer.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 6, 2024

Thanks to a prestigious academic legacy, Europe has long been a dominant region for life sciences. Europe is traditionally a life sciences powerhouse, with a strong tradition in pharmaceutical discovery. The oldest, still active pharmaceutical company worldwide, Merck, started life in 1668 in Darmstadt, Germany.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Healthcare commercial services agency Eversana announced that Sy Pretorius (as pictured), a 25-year life sciences veteran, will join the company as chief operating officer and president of outsourced solutions. November saw the launch of a new private equity team in life sciences at J.P. Eversana taps new COO.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Clinical-stage genome editing company Intellia Therapeutics has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to start a pivotal phase III trial of NTLA-2001 for the treatment of transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy.

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XTalks

JANUARY 26, 2024

Innovations in Cancer Therapy CRISPR/Cas9, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, has demonstrated significant potential in oncology, offering new avenues for cancer treatment. By editing these genes, researchers can effectively neutralize their cancer-promoting effects.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, life sciences market analysts attempt to correctly predict what the next 12 months might bring to the drug discovery sector. In summary, 2023 could be a very exciting year for life sciences. DDW’s Diana Spencer summarises the key trends likely to impact the market in 2023. .

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XTalks

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we step into 2024, the life sciences continue to evolve at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological innovation, a deeper understanding of human biology and the application of new technologies in areas like drug development and health wearables.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The cell and gene therapy industry has experienced exponential growth in the last three years and as funding for the field continues to break records there are no signs of a slowdown. With 2,261 ongoing clinical trials in regenerative medicine, the FDA expects to approve 1 between 10 and 20 new cell and gene therapies a year by 2025.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dr Salako says there are some clear fields of work associated with different areas, which include: Hertfordshire as a cell and gene therapy hub, with a number of companies in this space clustered around Stevenage. CellProthera also appointed the Newcastle Centre for Life’s GMP cell therapy centre to produce the ATMP.”

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

More Investigational Therapies for HIV Are on the Way American Gene Technologies, a pioneering biotech company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, has released promising results from its Phase I trial of AGT103-T, a gene therapy designed for individuals with chronic HIV disease.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Expanding upon the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, researchers at MIT have designed a new technique called PASTE gene editing that can cut out defective genes and replace them with new genes in a safer and more efficient way. The PASTE gene editing technique was recently published in Nature Biotechnology.

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XTalks

JANUARY 4, 2024

Pfizer has kickstarted the new year with its first-ever gene therapy approval, awarded by Health Canada to the company’s Beqvez (fidanacogene elaparvovec) for the treatment of hemophilia B. There is a significant focus on developing gene therapies as longer-term solutions for the disease.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 3, 2023

As life science operates globally, the vision for the business was always to bring aptamers as an antibody alternative to researchers worldwide. What advice would you offer to similar start-ups?    AT: Integral to Aptamer Group’s offering is an in-depth understanding of molecular science.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 31, 2022

After a recent approval, there are now three gene therapies available on the US market. In recent years, gene therapy has transitioned from a promising idea to a reality for patients, with many of the severe safety issues that emerged in early iterations of the technology being overcome. from 2021 to 2029.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 9, 2024

Mike Ward, Global Head of Thought Leadership, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Clarivate said: “The fundamentals underpinning the biopharma sector have never been stronger, with new technologies fuelling medical advancements and providing treatment options to patients with previously unmet needs.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 1, 2021

Synthetic biology holds much promise for the life sciences sector as it continues to look for new ways of treating disease and accelerating drug development, says Debiopharm’s Tanja Dowe. Here are my key takeaways from SynBioBeta’s conference.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Scopus is a biopharmaceutical company whose lead drug candidate is a novel, targeted immuno-oncology gene therapy for the treatment of multiple cancers. in Life Sciences and Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Dr. Hofstein received his B.Sc. Lesley Russell , MB.Ch.B, from the Harvard T.H.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. Common gene therapies use vehicles such as adeno-associated vectors (AAVs), which cannot carry the required payload in this case, says Carney.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have revolutionized the potential for gene editing, offering hope for curative treatments for conditions like Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and certain types of inherited blindness. Both therapies were awarded their approvals on the same day in December 2023.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 26, 2023

Colin Terry, European Life Sciences R&D leader at Deloitte, explains: “Revitalising today’s clinical trials processes and operations will drastically improve trial efficiency, enhance science-based decisions, and expand collective health equity. “The They will allow us to treat a disease with one single dose.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“At Medpace, we go further by having a specialist regulatory technical team support our clinical trials, particularly for cell-therapy studies.” Medpace has IP experience with both autologous and allogeneic cellular products, ex vivo and in vivo gene transfer, and a number of different gene-editing mechanisms. If so, why?

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

The epigenome plays a key role in many diseases such as heart disease, viral infections and cancer, and the new CRISPRoff technology could lead to powerful epigenetic therapies. Related: 2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 11, 2021

Speaking at the virtual Capital Markets Day on Wednesday, CEO Werner Baumann emphasized Bayer’s long-term growth perspectives: “Bayer is a leading life science company, uniquely positioned at the intersection of health and nutrition – with attractive prospects for growth, earnings and cash flow.”

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 18, 2023

Rolf Turk , Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. While type II (Cas9) is mainly used for gene-editing applications, CRISPR detecting tools primarily rely on type V (Cas12) and type VI (Cas13) collateral activity.

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XTalks

AUGUST 2, 2023

Meanwhile, BioMarin’s gene therapy Roctavian is approved by the FDA for the treatment of hemophilia A. Onureg (azacitidine), a leukemia therapy, also saw large growth of 70 percent to $124 million in 2022, and the multiple sclerosis drug Zeposia (ozanimod) generated $250 million in 2022, an 87 percent increase.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

The epigenome plays a key role in many diseases such as heart disease, viral infections and cancer, and the new CRISPRoff technology could lead to powerful epigenetic therapies. Related: 2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The pandemic propelled the life science and healthcare sectors onto center stage, and they rose to the occasion against the most unprecedented health challenge in recent times. While COVID-19 has undoubtedly been the biggest story in the life science industry in 2020, it was a busy and positive year in many other areas.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 26, 2023

Tripling its production capacity, Touchlight can now manufacture 8kg plasmid DNA, a key component for mRNA gene therapies and vaccines. As per the company, dbDNA is suitable for rapid, scalable manufacture of GMP DNA and can incorporate gene sequences of sizes ranging from 500bp to 20kb, which are typically unstable as pDNA.

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