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A startup launches with plans to open up a gene and cell therapy bottleneck

Bio Pharma Dive

The pipeline of CAR-T therapies and ex vivo gene therapies has swelled in recent years, but manufacturing hasn’t been able to keep up with demand.

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Avista and Roche to develop gene therapy vectors for eyes

Pharmaceutical Technology

Avista Therapeutics, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) spinout, has entered a collaboration with Roche for developing new AAV gene therapy vectors for eyes. Roche will use these new capsids to carry out preclinical, clinical and marketing activities for gene therapy programmes.

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Takeda discontinuing in AAV and rare haematology disease markets

Pharmaceutical Technology

Takeda has announced that it will be pivoting away from its discovery and preclinical programmes in adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies. Takeda’s announcement underlines the risk associated with gene therapy R&D at the preclinical stage and the fact that many current AAV programs are unlikely to reach late-stage trials.

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Untangling the Complexities of Cell and Gene Therapy Clinical Trials: A Supply Chain Perspective 

Pharmaceutical Technology

By Luisa Sterkel & Joana Loureiro , Tenthpin Consultants The promise and potential of cell and gene therapies (CGT) has emerged in the recent past and currently over 1.500 CGT are registered for clinical trials holding great hope for the treatment of challenging and uncurable diseases.

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Avrobio receives orphan drug designation for Hunter syndrome gene therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

Avrobio has received orphan drug designation for its gene therapy, AVR-RD-05, from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPSII) or Hunter syndrome. The company noted that this gene therapy is the fourth one to receive orphan drug designation.

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FDA grants approval for bluebird’s Zynteglo to treat beta-thalassemia

Pharmaceutical Technology

A custom-made, one-dose gene therapy, Zynteglo is indicated for such patients who need red blood cells (RBCs) transfusions on a regular basis. An ex-vivo lentiviral vector (LVV) gene therapy, Zynteglo’s every dose is made by genetically modifying the bone marrow stem cells of the patient to produce functional beta-globin.

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Xcell and aCGT Vector partner on cell and gene therapy development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical companies Xcell Biosciences (Xcellbio) and aCGT Vector have partnered to expedite the development of cell and gene therapies. The two companies will aim to improve the manufacturing and analytic procedures used to develop personalised cell and gene therapies to treat cancer patients.