Remove Development Remove Insulin Remove Licensing
article thumbnail

Vertex pays CRISPR to use its gene editing tech for diabetes drugs

Bio Pharma Dive

Vertex will license CRISPR technology to develop insulin-producing islet cells that are more resistant to immune rejection, adding to other efforts directed at Type 1 diabetes.

article thumbnail

Vertex signs licence deal with CRISPR Therapeutics for diabetes therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

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).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Evotec extends collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb

Pharmaceutical Technology

Evotec and Bristol Myers Squibb have extended and expanded their strategic partnership to develop a broadened neurodegenerative diseases programme pipeline. The partnership pursues an innovative approach to discovering and developing new medicines, using many of the modality-agnostic precision medicine platforms of Evotec.

article thumbnail

Novo Nordisk and Aspect join forces for bioprinting tissue therapeutics

Pharmaceutical Technology

Under the agreement, Novo Nordisk will gain an exclusive, global license to use Aspect’s pancreatic tissue platform to develop a maximum of four treatments for diabetes and/or obesity. The company is developing therapeutic platforms for the liver and the pancreas. million from the Canadian government.

Insulin 234
article thumbnail

Roche Invests $5.3B in Zealand’s Petrelintide, an Obesity Drug Candidate

XTalks

Roche, a global leader in biotechnology and diagnostics, has entered into an exclusive collaboration and licensing agreement with Zealand Pharma, a specialist in innovative therapeutics, to co-develop and co-commercialize petrelintide as a potential foundational therapy for people with overweight and obesity. billion $1.4 billion $1.4

article thumbnail

Sling Therapeutics’s Linsitinib Meets Primary Endpoint in Thyroid Eye Disease Trial, Eyes Competition with Amgen’s Tepezza

XTalks

Linsitinib, an oral small molecule that targets the insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R), is designed to address the underlying mechanisms driving thyroid eye disease. Sling Therapeutics in-licensed linsitinib from Astellas Pharma at the time of its launch as a company in 2022.

Trials 59
article thumbnail

Provention faces delay in FDA review of diabetes prevention antibody

pharmaphorum

The issues are holding up discussions between the agency and company about labeling and post-marketing requirements for teplizumab, and are concentrated around the pharmacokinetics data for the antibody, and whether it is comparable to the drug that its original developer Eli Lilly entered into clinical trials.