Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 30, 2024

“Dr Naldini open new doors for cures for otherwise untreatable genetic diseases with the full impact of his work still untapped”, she said. Streamlining trial designs and regulatory pathways can help. Intellectual property: High patent royalties and licensing fees for key technologies can inflate treatment costs.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 10, 2022

The technology is being deployed as a therapeutic in two ways – either modifying cells outside the body (ex vivo), which are reinfused to treat a disease – or directly administered (in vivo) to target tissues in the body.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In the age of artificial intelligence, no trial data should be going to waste. Findacure’s Rick Thompson looks at how these technologies could bring us closer to treatments for underserved rare diseases. The repurposing of drugs is becoming more common, especially in the field of rare diseases.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Y-mAbs Therapeutics has a target action date of November 30 for its Biologics License Application (BLA) for Danyelza (naxitamab) for patients with relapsed/refractory high-risk neuroblastoma. The drug was developed by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and exclusively licensed to Y-mAbs.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 17, 2021

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. The technology provides a way of producing hypoimmunogenic stem cells that can be differentiated into any cell type.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Acadia Pharma’s trofinetide has hit its efficacy targets in a phase 3 trial involving girls with the devastating neurological disorder Rett syndrome, although safety has dampened enthusiasm a little. Results from a phase 3 trial of blarcamesine are due next year. At 12 weeks, trofinetide-treated patients had a 5.1-point

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The New Drug Application (NDA) for the drug is based on data from four Phase III trials in pediatric patient populations from the age of 6 to 17 years, two Phase II trials, several Phase I trials, a long-term open label extension study, preclinical testing, and drug manufacturing data. This is under Priority Review.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The submission included data from two positive pivotal Phase III trials. Athenex and Almirall have a license deal with Almirall having the license to research, develop and commercialize the drug in the U.S. It was approved on December 15, 2020. and Europe, including Russia.

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 17, 2021

The efficacy and safety results were produced from a broad research study, multicenter, open-label, randomized phase 3 trial data from the Keynote-581 trial of the first-line therapy indicated to the patients that resulted in an extension of their survival. The rarity of disease – 1.36 person/million around the globe.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Vertex is planning to submit a Biologics License Application (BLA) by the end of the first quarter of 2023 and the company says it is also on track to submit exa-cel to UK and European Union (EU) regulators by the end of the year. As such, most gene therapies in late-stage clinical trials are in oncology or rare disease indications.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Received Rare Pediatric Disease and Fast Track Designations for INZ-701 for the treatment of ENPP1 deficiency. Expect to initiate INZ-701 Phase 1/2 clinical trials for ENPP1 and ABCC6 deficiencies in first half of 2021. Received Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Fast Track Designation from the U.S.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Japanese firm has agreed to make a $50 million investment in Dallas-based Taysha in exchange for a 15% stake in the company, plus exclusive options to license two clinical-stage, single-gene therapies for rare genetic diseases.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The ImmunoTAC platform pairs proprietary payloads that modulate key disease modifying pathways with monoclonal antibodies directed at specific disease sites. Silverback’s lead candidate is currently in a Phase I trial in adults with HER2-expressing solid tumors. Nuance Pharma .

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Although the FDA did not identify any filing issues with the NDA, the Agency reiterated a position raised during the Pediatric Advisory Committee (PAC) and Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) held on May 11, 2018 recommending two-year controlled trials in different age groups. In the U.S., About BioMarin.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that OAV-101 intrathecal (IT) clinical trials for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients may proceed, thereby lifting the partial clinical trial hold initiated in October 2019. Novartis today announced that the U.S. SVP, Chief Medical Officer, Novartis Gene Therapies. “We

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 6, 2024

The development of effective new disease-modifying treatments in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders has been hindered by their inherent genetic complexity, environmental influences, and clinical variability. This is comparatively easier to accomplish in these diseases because they are relatively monogenic.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As a consequence, patients with premature stop codon diseases have reduced or eliminated protein production from the mutation bearing allele accounting for some of the most severe phenotypes in these genetic diseases. These premature stop codons have been identified in over 1,800 rare and ultra-rare diseases.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Sabbagh will be responsible for expanding Inozyme’s proprietary pipeline by identifying and developing new therapeutics for monogenic and non-genetic diseases of abnormal mineralization. Prior to joining Inozyme, Sabbagh served as the head of rare renal and musculoskeletal diseases research at Sanofi.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 28, 2020

GeneTx licensed the rights to antisense technology intellectual property from the Texas A&M University System in December 2017. Ultragenyx is a biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing novel products to patients for the treatment of serious rare and ultra-rare genetic diseases. About Ultragenyx.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For example, it can take up to it three years to recruit enough participants for a dementia clinical trial. years it takes to complete an entire cancer clinical trial. The organisation also notes that only 1% of the people that can take part in dementia clinical trials actually do so. This compares to the 2.3

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