Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 11, 2024

Upcoming regulatory events for pipeline AAV gene therapies, with a focus on neuromuscular and blood disorders, are setting high expectations for the space in 2024.

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Bio Pharma Dive

APRIL 26, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration approval of Beqvez comes as other gene therapies for the bleeding condition that were approved earlier struggle to gain traction.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JUNE 12, 2024

The negative results from the Phase 3 study, called Ciffreo, come a little more than a month after Pfizer said a patient died in another trial of the gene therapy.

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Bio Pharma Dive

MAY 24, 2024

But the head of the FDA’s CBER office didn’t tip where the agency stands on potentially broadening use of Sarepta’s Duchenne gene therapy Elevidys.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ocuphire Pharma has announced the acquisition of Opus Genetics to develop gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Editas is partnering its CRISPR platform with Genevant’s LNP technology to develop novel gene editing medicines in a deal worth $283m.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

Called Advanced Medicine Partners, the new company will offer specialized cell and gene therapy manufacturing services to biotech and pharma clients.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Biomarin and CSL Behring’s haemophilia gene therapies have boosted innovation in the field, but assessing their cost effectiveness is less than straightforward.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

(Richard Jones/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Scientists have discovered hundreds of genes that could potentially promote cancer, new research shows. Cancer is typically triggered by some kind of change to our genetic coding that interferes with a cell’s ability to manage its growth.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 19, 2024

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast-track designation to Bayer subsidiary Asklepios BioPharmaceutical’s (AskBio) investigational gene therapy AB-1002, aimed at treating congestive heart failure (CHF).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Experts hold scalability challenges and high costs accountable for market failures within the cell and gene therapy landscape.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Pfizer has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its one-time gene therapy BEQVEZ for haemophilia B.

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Bio Pharma Dive

AUGUST 1, 2024

Wilson, who founded UPenn’s gene therapy program three decades ago, will step down to start two new spinouts, Gemma Bio and Franklin Biolabs.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JUNE 13, 2024

The failure of another trial adds to uncertainty around the benefits of the gene-based treatments, though industry analysts still expect Sarepta’s Elevidys’ to be unaffected.

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Bio Pharma Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Forge Biologics operates a contract manufacturing business as well as develops its own gene therapies, which appears to have attracted the Japan-based food and biotechnology company.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The regulatory greenlight makes it the only gene therapy available in Europe for sickle cell disease and TDT.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In this issue: The manufacturing shift to meet growing cell and gene therapy demand, applying lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic to address mpox, a ten-year review of Opdivo and Keytruda, and more.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 17, 2024

LX2006 consists of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector carrying the frataxin gene, responsible for causing Friedreich’s ataxia.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 21, 2024

Biotech executives discuss why developing gene therapies for central nervous system disorders remains difficult at a recent conference.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 4, 2023

Forge Biologics and global life sciences company Labcorp have announced a strategic adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy development and manufacturing collaboration. This will improve accessibility to services for AAV-mediated gene therapy programmes.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JULY 15, 2024

The company claims the results support exploring the possibility of an accelerated approval, citing flexibility by FDA officials in reviewing rare disease gene therapies.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The convergence of gene therapies and clinical research is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in ophthalmic care, offering hope for more effective treatments and potential cures for a range of vision-threatening conditions.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 15, 2024

Anocca has entered a licensing agreement with EmendoBio for the use of the latter’s OMNI-A4 nuclease, a gene editing technology.

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Bio Pharma Dive

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Kyowa will pay nearly $400 million to acquire Orchard, which sells the gene therapy Libmeldy in Europe but has struggled to find paths to market for other experimental treatments.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Genevoyager has announced the opening of contract development and manufacturing organisation facility to manufacture gene therapy products.

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Bio Pharma Dive

MAY 8, 2024

The results add to an early but growing body of evidence suggesting gene therapy may improve outcomes in young kids with a genetic form of deafness.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The value of haemophilia gene therapies like Roctavian and Hemgenix hinge on long-term efficacy and innovative payment structures play a key role.

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Bio Pharma Dive

APRIL 2, 2023

The startup, a successor to an eye gene therapy biotech that Novartis bought in 2020, will wind down after preclinical experiments didn’t meet the bar set by its leaders.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2024

At CPHI Europe, Angela Vollstedt, global director of Cell & Gene Therapies at Novartis discussed scale up strategies for cell therapies.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

AskBio has entered a strategic partnership with China-based Belief BioMed (BBM) to advance the development of new gene therapies.

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Bio Pharma Dive

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Already an investor in gene therapy, the Japanese pharma will buy 15% of the Texas biotech’s stock and gain options to two gene therapies for central nervous system disorders.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JANUARY 13, 2022

As record levels of money pour into gene therapy research, biotechs are under increased pressure to address issues related to safety, delivery and overlapping pipelines.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The FDA has granted fast track designation to Solid Biosciences’s gene therapy SGT-003 for the treatment of DMD.

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Bio Pharma Dive

MARCH 6, 2023

The Swiss drugmaker's decision is the latest in a string of partnership announcements for the gene therapy maker, which aims to bounce back from past research failures.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JUNE 6, 2023

The biotech has raised about $65 million to test two ways to deliver larger genes into the body, each of which could help gene therapy treat more diseases.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 23, 2023

Avrobio has announced a deal to sell its investigational haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy programme , designed to treat cystinosis, to Novartis in an all-cash deal valued at $87.5m. In 2022, Avrobio’s investigational gene therapy, AVR-RD-04, received a rare paediatric disease designation from the US Food and Drug Administration.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As more cell and gene therapies get approved to treat common conditions, scaling them up will be a challenge.

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