Bio Pharma Dive

MAY 27, 2021

Safety monitors cleared the company to test a higher dose after reviewing data from 10 patients, providing some hopeful news after recent setbacks for experimental drugs targeting the genetic disease.

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XTalks

APRIL 24, 2023

Rare diseases can often be progressive, chronic and fatal. Approximately 72 percent of rare diseases are genetic, and around 70 percent of rare genetic diseases emerge in childhood. Sadly, one-third of children with rare diseases die before their first birthday. How Can Study Protocols Be More Effective?

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 23, 2022

A Phase I/II clinical trial targeting a treatment for Huntington’s Disease (HD) using a gene therapy has been given the clearance to go ahead in France. . A rare inherited neurodegenerative disease, it’s thought to affect 62,000 people in the European Union.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease, approving two on the same day. Both gene therapies are approved for individuals 12 years of age and older with sickle cell disease. Both therapies will be available in early 2024.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

JANUARY 24, 2024

Written By: Derek Ansel, MS, CCRA, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease Given that 80% of rare diseases have a genetic etiology, genetic implications should be addressed at the onset of a clinical program to support trial enrollment.

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XTalks

MAY 26, 2023

Krystal Biotech’s Vyjuvek has been awarded US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to make it the first topical gene therapy for the treatment of wounds in patients with the rare, often debilitating skin disease dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). It has been modified so that it cannot replicate in normal cells.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 1, 2022

Sarepta is pressing forward with a bold plan to file with the FDA for accelerated approval of its gene therapy SRP-9001 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in the next few months, with a view to making it available in sometime around the middle of 2023.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

An investigational gene therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome – which leads to a form of childhood dementia – has shown promising early results in a proof-of-concept study. The patient’s modified blood stem cells, now including a working copy of the SGSHgene, are then given back to the patient.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

BioMarin Pharma has had another setback in its gene therapy development programme, announcing this morning that the FDA has placed a phase 1/2 trial of its candidate for phenylketonuria (PKU) on hold while it investigates a safety signal.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 8, 2023

The manufacturer, Genethon, is a non-profit gene therapy R&D organisation founded by the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM-Telethon). “We’re excited about the EMA’s PRIME recognition of GNT-0003,” said Genethon CEO Frederic Revah. “If

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

SparingVision has raised €75 million in second-round funding that will be used to fund clinical trials of gene therapies for ocular diseases retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The post SparingVision raises €75m for eye disease gene therapies appeared first on.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 11, 2022

David Lewandowski, Business Director of Cell & Gene Therapy at Azenta Life Sciences, explains how efficient sample management can help to work efficiently and bring therapies to market faster. It has been estimated that by 2025 the FDA will be approving 10 to 20 cell and gene therapy products per year 2.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Bluebird bio could be just a few months away from approval of its gene therapy for rare disease cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD) in the EU, after the EMA started an accelerated review. CALD is caused by mutations in the ABCD1 gene located on the X chromosome, which provides instructions for the production of the ALD protein.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 22, 2023

Vyjuvek is a non-invasive, topical, re-dosable gene therapy that delivers functional human COL7A1 gene copies to offer wound healing. The regulatory approval was supported by data from the GEM-1/2 and GEM-3 clinical trials. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The first patient has been dosed with an engineered B cell investigational therapy in a Phase I trial in Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I). Developer Immusoft has received FDA Orphan Drug Designation and Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for the therapy, designated ISP-001, in this indication.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 29, 2022

CAMP4’s CSO David Bumcrot PhD tells Pharmaceutical Technology that the company plans to see clinical trials go forward for their urea cycle disorder programs late next year. The most common marketed drugs in this space aim to address the hyperammonaemia caused by the defective genes in this disorder.

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Delveinsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Immune-stimulating antibodies, which target the receptor CD40, are emerging as promising therapies for pancreatic cancer. However, they have only shrunk tumors in about half of patients who took them, along with chemotherapy, in the clinical trials. Avrobio gene therapy eradicates toxic substrate in Fabry patient.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Vertex Pharma and partner CRISPR Therapeutics will start a rolling marketing application in the US for their gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta thalassaemia later this year. The time places exa-cel in pole position to become the first drug developed based on CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to reach the market.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has recommended the use of Libmeldy for the treatment of the rare genetic disease metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). Related: Gene Silencing Porphyria Treatment, Givlaari, Finally Wins Over England’s NICE Amid Stellar Long-Term Data. The cells are then injected back into the patient.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 30, 2024

Viral vector manufacturing At the Advanced Therapies Awards ceremony, Dr Luigi Naldini, Director of the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of ‘extraordinary contributions to gene therapy’, a field he has helped shape through his pioneering work on lentiviral vectors.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vertex Pharma has ramped up its involvement in gene-editing medicines for the third time in a matter of months, agreeing a partnership with CRISPR specialist Arbor Biotechnologies that could be worth up to $1.2 If approved, it could mount a challenge to bluebird bio’s gene therapy Zynteglo, which is already approved in Europe.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 11, 2024

Patients affected by the disease are found to also experience an imbalance of glutathione regulation, which is important for liver detoxification. Successful industry/academia collaboration Fewer than 5% of rare diseases have approved therapies and most of these treatments use gene therapy.

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 26, 2021

Shape Therapeutics inks gene therapy deal with Roche worth up to USD 3 Billion. Seattle biotech firm Shape Therapeutics has signed a deal potentially exceeding USD 3 billion with pharma giant Roche to bolster the development of gene therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A tiny child with a devastating genetic disease who wasn’t supposed to blow out the candles on his first birthday cake. Not only did this baby survive to do all these things, but he became a poster child for gene therapy with the regulators at the U.S. Integrating patients into all trial functions. Collaboration.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 10, 2022

Bayer has bolstered its cell and gene therapy platform by securing access to a CRISPR-based gene-editing platform developed by US biotech Mammoth Biosciences. CRISPR drugs can be used to modify the expression of disease-associated proteins in the body, for example, by correcting a mutation in a specific gene.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For example, on the pharma and biotech side, there has been growing demand for new drugs and biologics, from new classes of dual-action diabetes and weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro to life-saving gene therapies. 1. Cell and Gene Therapies. Here are four life sciences trends to look out for in 2023.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 9, 2023

Novartis’ programme providing free access to its spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene therapy Zolgensma is being scaled back to a dozen countries worldwide, according to the company. ” Zolgensma is one of the most expensive therapies available, with a price tag of around $2.1

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Astellas has been having some safety-related issues with its gene therapy programmes of late, but it shows no signs of lessened enthusiasm for the category – as a new alliance with US biotech Taysha demonstrates. ” The post Astellas makes another gene therapy play, takes stake in Taysha appeared first on.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The drug – which costs $125,000 at US list prices – can be used either alone or in combination with hydroxyurea, a well-established therapy for the disease. CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex are also in the running with their gene-editing candidate CTX001, in phase 1/2 trials which are due to generate final results later this year.

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Delveinsight

JANUARY 12, 2021

million after Birinapant successfully becomes a part of the Phase I trials. It is approved for classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) following at least two prior therapies and locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC) with PD-L1 high expression. . and Europe.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

cTTP is a very rare, inherited and life-threatening blood clotting disorder caused by a disease-causing mutation in the ADAMTS13 (A disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs 13) gene, which encodes the ADAMTS13 enzyme that regulates blood clotting by cleaving the von Willebrand factor (VWF) protease.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Pompe disease, also referred to as acid-maltase disease and glycogen storage disease II, is an uncommon genetic disorder characterized by the gradual weakening of both cardiac and skeletal muscles. The body relies on this enzyme to break down glycogen, a stored form of sugar utilized for energy production.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 12, 2020

The enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) – also known as PRX-102 – has been granted a priority review by the US regulator, and is the top prospect in Chiesi’s recently formed rare diseases division. Market research firm Optima Insights has predicted that sales of Fabry disease drugs will more than double from around $1.8

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Axovant has said it plans to continue developing its Parkinson’s Disease gene therapy after reporting supportive data from a small cohort of patients from a phase 2 trial. The data came from a second cohort of just four patients in the phase 2 clinical trial SUNRISE-PD, although the improvement in symptoms was dramatic.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 19, 2024

Lenmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel) has become the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved gene therapy for the treatment of children with pre-symptomatic late infantile, pre-symptomatic early juvenile or early symptomatic early juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD).

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 17, 2020

PARIS–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Regulatory News: Lysogene (Paris:LYS) (FR0013233475 – LYS), a phase 3 gene therapy platform Company targeting central nervous system (CNS) diseases, announces a change in the governance and control of KGA, a company co-owned by Karen Aiach and which currently owns approximately 6% of Lysogene’s capital.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 27, 2020

PARIS–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Regulatory News: Lysogene (FR0013233475 – LYS) (Paris:LYS), a phase 3 gene therapy platform company targeting central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today reports positive biomarker data from the ongoing AAVance clinical trial with LYS-SAF302 for the treatment of MPS IIIA (NCT03612869).

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