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8 key clinical trials to watch for the rest of 2021

Bio Pharma Dive

The next six months could feature clinical milestones for CRISPR gene editing, the treatment of COVID-19, microbiome drugs and gene-targeted cancer therapy.

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The Significance of the MHRA Approval and Upcoming FDA Review of the First Gene Editing Treatment

Worldwide Clinical Trials

Casgevy, the commercial product formerly known as exa-cel, is administered by taking stem cells out of a patient’s bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory, with the modified cells then infused back into the patient after conditioning treatment to prepare the bone marrow.

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July 31, 2024: Gene Editing Therapies and Population Health, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Adrian Hernandez In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Adrian Hernandez of Duke University will present “Precision Health to Population Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Gene Editing Therapies.” He is a co–principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center.

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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. Zinc fingers. That would just slow the whole field down.

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Logistics in Focus: Orchestrating the Challenges of Cell Therapy

Worldwide Clinical Trials

For example, once considered incurable and terminal, patients with sickle cell disease may reach new summits in their lives with gene editing technologies such as CRISPR to repair affected DNA and, in some cases, functionally cure the condition. Cell therapy, specifically, is changing our narrative around chronic and lethal conditions.

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Gene-edited cell replacement therapy for diabetes set to enter the clinic

BioPharma Reporter

have received the green light from Health Canada for their Clinical Trial Application for VCTX210: an allogeneic, gene-edited, immune-evasive, stem cell-derived therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D). CRISPR Therapeutics and ViaCyte, Inc.

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Verve Therapeutics and Lilly partner to advance gene editing programme

Pharmaceutical Technology

Verve Therapeutics and Eli Lilly and Company have entered an exclusive research partnership to advance the former’s preclinical stage in vivo gene editing programme targeting lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) to treat atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Lilly will provide funding for the Phase I clinical trials.