STAT News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

… Multimillion-dollar prices for a rival’s treatments with the potential to cure rare diseases are “in the right ballpark,” according to Stuart Arbuckle, chief operating officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which is preparing to market its own treatment for sickle-cell disease , Bloomberg News tells us. Even

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 14, 2022

It is estimated that there are currently more than 7,000 orphan diseases, many of which are considered life-threatening and most of which have a genetic basis. Despite this high number, orphan diseases are rare by definition, affecting around one in 2,000 people as defined by the European Union. Go-to-market strategies.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is not the first treatment to come with a high price tag. However, more highly innovative/high-cost treatments, within infectious disease and neurology space, are likely to enter the market for rare disorders, increasing the number of non-oncology RSAs.

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XTalks

AUGUST 19, 2022

But bluebird bio has said such setbacks are expected for a company at the frontier of developing gene therapies for rare diseases. The most severe form of the disease is sometimes called transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia or beta-thalassemia major. Zynteglo’s hefty price tag of $2.8

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XTalks

JUNE 28, 2023

DMD is a rare genetic disorder that leads to progressive muscle degeneration and weakness. In its approval, the FDA said it considered the potential risks associated with the drug, the life-threatening and debilitating nature of the disease for these children and the urgent unmet medical need.

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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. Casgevy is also the first ever CRISPR/Cas9-based therapy approved in the US.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 2, 2022

R&D into orphan drugs is growing alongside the number of approved treatments, providing treatments for rare diseases that previously did not have any. As covered in a previous article , the importance of R&D to develop treatments for rare diseases is high. of the global population are affected by a rare disease.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Prior to Hemgenix, bluebird bio’s recently approved gene therapy Skysona for the rare neurological disorder cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD) held the record for the highest-costing drug in the world at $3 million and before that, it was Novartis’ one-dose gene therapy Zolgensma which is priced at about $2 million. With a list price of $3.5

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Roche’s oral treatment Evrysdi for the rare genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will be made available on the NHS in England, after NICE reached a three-year access agreement with the company. million price tag make it is the most expensive treatment ever approved for NHS funding.

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XTalks

JANUARY 28, 2022

Uveal melanoma is a rare and aggressive type of melanoma of the eye. Up to 50 percent of patients will develop metastatic disease, mainly spreading to the liver, making treatment difficult and limited. The new treatment will thus help address the unmet need for the disease. The median treatment time is about 23 weeks (or 5.3

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Skysona received FDA approval for the treatment of the rare neurological disorder cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD). CALD is a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease that mainly affects young boys. The record-breaking price tag of Skysona is not surprising for one-time gene therapies like it.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Vounatsos also insisted that Aduhelm’s price tag has not been a factor discouraging treatment with the drug. Biogen stumped up $1.525 billion upfront for rights to the drug and another Sage candidate for neurological diseases last year, when the expectation was that Aduhelm was unlikely to get FDA approval.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 26, 2021

After initial rejection from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) last year, the non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in England has now given the green light to the gene silencing treatment Givlaari (givosiran) for the treatment of the rare metabolic disorder, acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 5, 2022

Uveal melanoma is a rare cancer of the eye, which in the majority of patients is localised. mUM is the most common form of cancer affecting the eye in adults, but is still rare, diagnosed in a around 1,700 patients each year in the US, with a few hundred already with metastatic disease that has spread to other tissues.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 11, 2021

Under the plans the company’s rare disease drugs will remain under the aegis of bluebird with current genetic disease president Andrew Obenshain taking the reins as CEO. million price tag. Zynteglo is already in beta-thalassemia in Europe, where the company will seek to expand access despite its hefty $1.8

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Dutch biotech Argenx is on course to add another rare disease indication to the label of its FcRn blocker Vyvgart – primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) – thanks to new data reported at the ASH annual meeting.

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XTalks

JUNE 8, 2021

In addition, recent data from a Phase I trial has shown ‘remarkable’ long-term results of the gene therapy in children with the disease. With a price tag of over $2.5 While SMN1 gene mutations cause the disease, the number of copies of the SMN2 gene modifies the severity and helps determine the type of the condition.

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Intouch Solutions

JULY 27, 2021

they pointed out that the COVID-19 vaccines, and the controversial approval of aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, represented polar opposites in terms of drug pricing reform. In their letter, “ Drug Pricing Reform in 2021 – Going Big or Going Bipartisan? In the case of the vaccines, the U.S.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Bluebird is also now back on track in evaluating its candidate gene therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD) after the FDA lifted a clinical hold on studies of the drug this month. There is also generally a low cost of return for gene therapies, particularly those for rare diseases. million for a single infusion.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 17, 2021

C5 inhibitor Soliris – which has a list price in the US of more than $500,000 per year – has been a standard therapy for the rare disorder since 2007, and was joined on the market by longer-acting follow-up Ultomiris in 2018 which launched with a price tag of around $450,000 per year. billion and $1.1 billion and $1.1

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 2, 2021

The cost-effectiveness agency’s initial assessment is that Evrysdi is simply too expensive at its current price to be provided to the roughly 1,500 people with the rare genetic disorder who might be eligible to receive it. Zolgensma was backed for type 1 SMA in draft guidance issued last month, even though the gene therapy’s £1.79

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The technical advisory group on SARS-CoV-2 virus evolution (TAG-VE) met on Friday to discuss B.1.1.529, Scientists in South Africa first detected the lineage a week ago upon which the National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the country alerted global health authorities.

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Intouch Solutions

APRIL 11, 2024

This can make a difference in all cases, but particularly with rare diseases. Offering the physician support from a virtual assistant during the differential diagnosis process where they have access to a more extensive knowledge and experience base.

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XTalks

MARCH 22, 2023

The years that followed have seen a rise in large pharma companies acquiring much smaller biopharmas with a narrow focus on rare disease therapeutic development. The proton-pump inhibitor is designed to reduce stomach acid levels, thereby treating digestive conditions like gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21, 2020 — A combination of two “targeted” therapies can beat back a rare form of blood cancer — without the toxic effects of chemotherapy, a new study has found. The disease is a subtype of ALL in which the cancer cells have a genetic abnormality called the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph). WEDNESDAY, Oct.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21, 2020 — A combination of two “targeted” therapies can beat back a rare form of blood cancer — without the toxic effects of chemotherapy, a new study has found. The disease is a subtype of ALL in which the cancer cells have a genetic abnormality called the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph). WEDNESDAY, Oct.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 27, 2023

On January 18, Sanofi launched a new warranty program for its rare blood disorder drug Cablivi (caplacizumab), which tackles value-based agreements in a slightly different way. A refund up to 12 inpatient doses will also be offered for patients whose disease worsens while receiving treatment.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Amongst his accomplishments, Law360 considered the role James has played in leveraging little-used pathways to FDA approval for often first-ever drugs to treat rare diseases (e.g., Duchenne, Friederichs’s Ataxia, Sickle Cell Disease, Chagas, ALS). Dormer Jeffrey N. Gibbs Paul M. Hyman Alan M. Kirschenbaum Allyson B.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 26, 2022

BioMarin will no doubt have an eye on the earlier experience of bluebird bio, which secured EU approval for rare disease gene therapy Zynteglo (betibeglogene autotemcel) in 2019 for beta thalassaemia with a price tag of around €1.6 million spread over five years.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 10, 2020

Evrysdi is the third treatment approved for SMA , an ultra-rare muscle wasting disease that can begin in early childhood, after Biogen’s Spinraza (nusinersen) and Novartis’ Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec). But Spinraza costs $750,000 in the first year of treatment and about half that price annually from then on.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 4, 2021

Rare Disease. In March 2021, Pfizer, the Israel Ministry of Health (MoH) and BioNTech announced real-world evidence demonstrating dramatically lower incidence rates of COVID-19 disease in individuals fully vaccinated with BNT162b2. The vaccine was 100% effective against severe disease as defined by the U.S. Total Revenue.

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