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Upcoming sickle cell gene therapies cost effective at $2 million, says ICER

Pharmaceutical Technology

Although the findings in the report are only preliminary, they shed light at the considerations behind the high price tags of gene therapies. While stem cell transplants can cure the condition, their use is limited due to some of the risks that come with them. Also known as lovo-cel, bluebird bio’s product is a lentiviral gene therapy.

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First gene therapy trial for Hunter syndrome opens in Manchester, UK

Drug Discovery World

The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Research Ethics Committee (REC), and Health Research Authority (HRA) have all approved the clinical trial application that was submitted by The University of Manchester in August 2022.

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Lyfgenia and Casgevy Become First FDA-Approved Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease

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While Lyfgenia delivers a functional copy of hemoglobin A to replace the abnormal one in hematopoietic (blood) stem cells via a lentiviral vector, Casgevy edits the HBB gene using CRISPR technology to increase the production of fetal hemoglobin in blood stem cells. Both therapies will be available in early 2024.

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Beam makes USD 120M bet; GRAIL and Quest announce the collaboration; Brain organoids mimic infant’s brains; Improvement in T cells to kill cancer

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Working with Quest will help them support convenient access to blood collection for patients and healthcare providers. A new study from UCLA and Stanford University researchers observes that three-dimensional human stem cell-derived brain organoids can mature in a strikingly similar way to human brain development.

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A history of Pfizer

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“Pfizer is the 6th largest lobbier in Washington, and spent $25 million on lobbying during the passing of Obama’s healthcare reform legislation alone” Ups and downs. For all the latest Pfizer news follow pharmaphorum’s Pfizer tag. The post A history of Pfizer appeared first on.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 2

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Novel platforms This session will begin with chariperson’s remarks from Lars Linden, PhD, Vice President, Head, Biologics Research, Bayer HealthCare, which will be followed by a keynote presentation by Agnieszka Kielczewska, PhD, Director, Research, Antibody Discovery and Screening, Biologics Discovery, Amgen.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

Drug Discovery World

Immunocytokines Following chairperson’s remarks from Stefan Zielonka, PhD, Global Head of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA; Professor of Biomolecular Immunotherapy, Technical University of Darmstadt, there will be a keynote presentation from Roberto De Luca, PhD, Head, Therapeutic Antibodies, Philochem.

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