Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has authorised the world’s first gene therapy for sickle-cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT). Casgevy is designed to work by editing the faulty gene in a patient’s bone marrow stem cells so that the body produces functioning haemoglobin.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Challenges remain with current delivery approaches, and genetic medicines applications have been generally restricted to the liver and ex vivo settings. Aera’s technology also includes a licensed therapeutic enzyme platform based on the discovery of novel, compact, and programmable gene editing enzymes.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 26, 2023

MiNA Therapeutics has entered into a research collaboration and option licensing agreement with BioMarin Pharmaceutical to speed up the development of therapeutic ribonucleic acid activation (RNAa) candidates to treat rare genetic diseases. The option licensing agreement is based on early-stage clinical results.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ Biologics License Application (BLA) and granted Priority Review for RP-L201 (marnetegragene autotemcel). The post FDA acceptance advances investigational gene therapy appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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STAT News

MARCH 9, 2023

A decade ago, I had pegged gene and cell therapies as the next frontier. In the spring of 2013, I had just visited a lab focused on gene and cell therapies at Baylor College of Medicine. As an investment banker, I was sure they would someday change how patients were treated. Read the rest…

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XTalks

APRIL 24, 2023

Approximately 72 percent of rare diseases are genetic, and around 70 percent of rare genetic diseases emerge in childhood. Eagleton recently spoke on a webinar with his colleagues from Medpace about lessons learned from successful approaches from rare disease and gene therapy product approvals.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

This meeting will host a panel of rare disease patients, caregivers, and advocates to have a focused discussion on the emerging field of gene therapy (regulated at the FDA by OTP). At least some (if not all) of the panelists will have had experience participating in gene therapy trials. One family’s daughter was the first U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Valentine — On November 22, 2022, FDA approved CSL Behring’s BLA for Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), an AAV-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with Hemophilia B who currently use Factor IX prophylaxis therapy, have current or historical life-threatening hemorrhage, or have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 28, 2023

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has signed a new non-exclusive licensing agreement with CRISPR Therapeutics to expedite the development of its hypoimmune cell therapies to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). The gene-editing technology allows for precise, directed changes to genomic DNA. The system comprises the Cas9 enzyme and a guide RNA.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In celebration of the Nobel Prize for Medicine going to two of the early proponents of mRNA technology for creating therapeutics, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, this week our round-up highlights the importance of genetics, genomics and gene editing in drug discovery.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Avrobio has received rare pediatric disease designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational gene therapy, AVR-RD-04, designed to treat cystinosis. AVR-RD-04 works by genetically modify a patient's hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to express the gene that encodes the cystinosin protein.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lacerta Therapeutics has entered a new licensing and research partnership agreement with Eli Lilly and Company subsidiary, Prevail Therapeutics, to discover and develop adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids for treating central nervous system (CNS) diseases. .

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ReviR Therapeutics has signed a research collaboration and option-to-license agreement with Asieris Pharmaceuticals to discover new oncology therapeutics. Its initial focus is to develop therapeutics in oncology, CNS, and genetically defined disease indications.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Scribe Therapeutics, a start-up focusing on gene-editing using CRISPR/Cas9, has burst onto the biotech scene with a $415 million deal with Biogen. It will also use a variation of CRISPR/Cas9 known as CRISPR/Casx which is smaller, making it easier to deliver using viral vectors for example, and more efficient at modifying genes in the body.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 27, 2021

Dosing can start once again in uniQure’s phase 3 trial of its haemophilia B gene therapy, after the FDA concluded that a case of liver cancer seen in the study was unlikely to be caused by the treatment. . The post FDA lifts hold on uniQure gene therapy after cancer case review appeared first on.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 6, 2023

Ginkgo Bioworks has strengthened its end-to-end R&D capabilities in gene therapy with the purchase of adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid discovery and engineering assets from StrideBio, for an undisclosed sum. The new capabilities and IP will be incorporated under Ginkgo’s end-to-end AAV gene therapy development platform.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong looks at the cell and gene therapy landscape, examining the challenges facing developers and the trends we can expect to see throughout the year. . There’s no doubt that cell and gene therapies present some of the most exciting opportunities for emerging drugs. million price point per dose.

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Delveinsight

JANUARY 12, 2021

Medivir, IGM Biosciences enters into an exclusive licensing agreement for Birinapant. Medivir AB has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with IGM Biosciences to receive global, exclusive development rights for Birinapant. AvantGen Enters into a Licensing Agreement for its Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies with IGM Biosciences.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Already a major player in gene therapy, Novartis has swooped on US startup Vedere Bio in a $280 million deal that builds its position in inherited eye diseases that can lead to blindness. Novartis’ big move in the gene therapy market came when it bought AveXis for $8.7 It also gets two preclinical-stage development projects.

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XTalks

JUNE 20, 2022

Alnylam’s Onpattro was its first licensed and approved RNAi therapy for ATTR polyneuropathy. Hereditary ATTR has an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance and is caused by point mutations in the transthyretin ( TTR ) gene that codes for the transthyretin transport protein found in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 25, 2024

Allogene Therapeutics and Arbor Biotechnologies Biotechnology companies Allogene Therapeutics and Arbor Biotechnologies entered a non-exclusive, global gene editing licensing agreement for use of Arbor’s proprietary CRISPR gene-editing technology in Allogene’s AlloCAR T platform for the treatment of autoimmune disease (AID).

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 5, 2024

AbbVie and Umoja Biopharma have entered into two exclusive option and license agreements to develop multiple in-situ generated CAR-T cell therapy candidates in oncology. The first agreement provides AbbVie an exclusive option to license Umoja’s CD19 directed in-situ generated CAR-T cell therapy candidates.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 3, 2023

PrecisionLife and the University of Oxford have signed a data access agreement to license the Oxford Endometriosis Gene (OXEGENE) dataset to develop new personalised treatments for endometriosis patients. Endometriosis affects 10% of women globally, but on average it takes over seven years for patients to receive a diagnosis.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 9, 2024

Mekonos, a company working towards cell engineering on a chip, has entered into a partnership agreement with Accelerated Bio to codevelop a new manufacturing cell line based on Accelerated Bio’s human Trophoblast Stem Cells (hTSCs) and Gene Engineered Multi-Sites (GEMS) technology.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 24, 2023

Israeli researchers have developed a drug that is effective in treating a rare genetic muscle disease. The team demonstrated that the disease is caused by a mutation in the gene encoding HMG CoA reductase, inhibiting the enzyme’s activity.

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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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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 3, 2022

DMD is a severe, progressive muscle-wasting genetic condition caused by the lack of a protein called dystrophin. Translarna was the first licensed treatment for DMD which addresses the loss of dystrophin. Translarna was the first licensed treatment for DMD which addresses the loss of dystrophin.

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BioSpace

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Editas Medicine is pausing its ocular gene therapy program after demonstrating a favorable safety profile and seeking a potential partner to develop EDIT-101, the company announced Thursday.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Ltd (“Juyou”), a biotechnology company that develops and sells medical and cosmetic skincare products, for the commercialization and development of Pliaglis ® in mainland China (the “License Agreement”). million and US$1.8 For additional information, please visit [link].

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Dr Amrolia is Professor of Transplantation Immunology at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and an international leader in CAR T-cell therapy for paediatric ALL, and ViroCell Biologics is a specialist viral vector CDMO for cell and gene therapy (CGT) clinical trials.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 7, 2021

Gene editing firm CRISPR Therapeutics has announced a collaboration with US biotech Nkarta to develop natural killer (NK) cell therapies for cancer. It’s at the forefront of gene editing although the technology has spawned rivals including Intellia Therapeutics, Caribou Biosciences, Sangamo Therapeutics and Mammoth Biosciences.

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XTalks

MAY 1, 2023

Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to Biogen’s Qalsody (tofersen) for the treatment of adult patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) associated with a mutation in the superoxide dismutase 1 ( SOD1 ) gene. This makes Qalsody the first approved treatment to target a genetic cause of ALS.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 5, 2022

It can be caused by exposure to loud noises – including prolonged use of earbuds at high volumes – as well as cancer treatment, illnesses, genetic mutations, or aging. SNHL is the most common form of hearing loss, account for more than 90% of cases and affecting millions of people worldwide. An estimated 1.57

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 24, 2022

GSK has participated in an impressive $175 million Seres C financing for LifeMine led by Fidelity Management & Research Co, paying the company a $70 million license fee along with an undisclosed equity investment as part of a “strategic” partnership focusing initially on three targets.

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XTalks

MARCH 21, 2023

Related: Gene Therapy Clinical Trials for Rare Diseases: 5 Key Takeaways from FDA’s Recent Town Hall Rett syndrome is typically caused by a genetic mutation on the MECP2 gene. Significant development regression associated with the disease occurs after a period of normal development from six to 18 months of age.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 10, 2023

This paid-for advertorial by Taconic appeared in DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023 Overcoming challenges in model generation Genetically engineered mouse models are essential tools for biomedical research. Figure 1: Characterisation of chimeric founders for a genetically humanized allele. (A)

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XTalks

MAY 22, 2023

Related: 5 Food Companies Working With Precision Fermentation Technology How Pairwise Leverages CRISPR Technology CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a gene-editing technique that can be used to alter the DNA of cells to enhance certain characteristics or reduce less desirable ones.

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