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Cyagen and Neurophth Therapeutics have entered a strategic partnership to jointly develop next-generation AAV genetherapy vectors for specific kinds of genetic ophthalmic ailments. Additionally, Neurophth will oversee the clinical trials and marketing of genetherapy products developed leveraging the new AAV capsids of Cyagen.
How and When to Incorporate PK Design into Your GeneTherapy Development Plan. Genetherapy, which was in its infancy around 30 years ago, is now becoming a more prominent treatment method in many therapeutic areas, from personalized therapy to mass vaccinations against COVID-19. GeneTherapy Definition.
The deal will see Polyplus join the German life science group’s portfolio allowing the latter to leverage expertise in transfection reagents and plasmid DNA for genetherapy. Polyplus, based in Strasbourg, France, produces key components in the production of viral vectors used in cell and genetherapies.
Last week, CAMP4 Therapeutics announced the close of a $100 million Series B round , which will be used to advance their regulatory RNA (regRNA)-focused programs. CAMP4’s CSO David Bumcrot PhD tells Pharmaceutical Technology that the company plans to see clinical trials go forward for their urea cycle disorder programs late next year.
from Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) to further advance its oncology portfolio targeting RNA. It will also support the firm’s preclinical effort on the long non-coding RNA (LncRNA) programme, FTX-001, that targets MALAT-1. Flamingo Therapeutics has received a research grant of €1.7m
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Myeloid Therapeutics has raised $73m to support the continued clinical development of its lead cell therapy programme, MT-101, in Phase I/II trials for T cell lymphoma. The financing will help to fast-track the development of other in vivo programming candidates into clinical trials.
In November, the companies announced plans for a Phase I clinical trial of the combined vaccine candidate in healthy adult subjects. The first subject was dosed in the trial, which is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of a nucleoside-modified RNA-based combination vaccine approach.
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Authors: Rich Worldwide Clinical Trials Exec. This trend is on the rise despite recent disappointments with clinical trial outcomes, which have the potential to destabilize the industry in the short term regarding drug development strategy and optimal study designs. Director, Therapeutic Area Medical Lead.
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in a project agreement from the US government for developing self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccine technology against advanced and emergent viral threats. Development of vaccines to Phase I trials under the five-year $59m prototype project comprises additional $28.4m in milestone payments. By Cytiva Thematic.
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted emergency use authorisation (EUA) for CSPC Pharmaceutical Group’s messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, SYS6006, to treat Covid-19. In April, CSPC Pharmaceutical secured emergency clinical trial approval to conduct trials of the mRNA vaccine. in clinical trials.
Mode rna has submitted an application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to obtain emergency use authorization (EUA) for mRNA-1273.222, its BA.4/BA.5 According to the findings, the trial of mRNA-1273.214 met all primary endpoints. At present, a Phase II/III trial of mRNA-1273.222 is progressing. 1 subvariant.
An RNA editing therapy, WVE-006, could act on AATD’s liver and lung manifestations. On completion of the first-in-patient clinical trial by Wave, GSK will be in charge of the development and marketing works. Cell & GeneTherapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva. By Cytiva Thematic.
858 Therapeutics closes USD 60 Million series A round to drug RNA modulation. Now, they are ready for their next venture, which is launching RNA biotech 858 Therapeutics with a USD 60 million Series A fundraising. have helped prepare more than 20 drug candidates for clinical trials. Jeffrey Stafford, Ph.D., Stafford and co.
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In a clinical trial, participants demonstrated a 98% success rate after six months post implantation, with arteries widened successfully and no stent fractures observed. In a trial with 100 patients , the device demonstrated no major complications, an average bleeding stop time of 2 minutes, with patients walking within approximately 2.5
The Phase III trial results show that Givlaari offers sustainable benefit to AIP patients and confirm its favorable safety profile. Related: Novartis’ $2 Million GeneTherapy Zolgensma Shows ‘Remarkable’ Results and Offers Hope for Children with SMA. This is a huge development for patients.”.
Ovid Therapeutics is running Phase III clinical trials for its drug, Gaboxadol ( OV101 ). In addition to this, Angelman syndrome pipeline also involves genetherapy candidates such as GTX-101 which is a therapy of GeneTx Biotherapeutics.
In the ever-evolving landscape of pharmaceutical development, the complexity of early phase clinical trials is increasing. Cohen speaks about the significant increase in complexity in the early clinical space, discussing factors including increasing development costs and increasing complexity of molecules and resulting trial designs.
ADARx bags USD 75 Million to advance its RNA tech pipeline. ADARx Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company developing RNA targeting therapeutics , announced the completion of a USD 75 million Series B financing to progress its drug development pipeline. Ixaka remains blinded to the data until the execution of the trial.
Clinical research experts from the CRO Medpace shared insights about the operational and regulatory considerations for neuroscience trials with direct CNS administration. Another advantage of intrathecal delivery is that it may allow therapies to gain access to the spinal space which may not have systemic access to the CNS.
The XTEND-1 trial also showed that BIVV001 was better at reducing the annualised rate of bleeding episodes than patients’ previous therapies, according to Sanofi and Sobi, which said they will now talk to regulators to chart a path forward to approval.
Despite including guidance on confirmatory trials and FDAs authority to require them, the Agency decided to publish an additional guidance focused solely on how it is interpreting the authority to require that such trials be underway prior to accelerated approval or within a specified time period after the date of accelerated approval.
The acquisition is the recent sign that large pharmaceutical companies view messenger RNA, which BioNTech and Moderna utilized to develop the COVID-19 vaccines now cleared for use in dozens of countries, as a crucial drug-making platform. Fibroblasts are part of the platform fueling cell-based genetherapy biotech Castle Creek.
Novartis GeneTherapies to initiate new pivotal confirmatory study to evaluate use of AVXS-101 intrathecal (I T ) formulation in older patients with SMA to further support registration. Novartis GeneTherapies remains confident in the overall benefit-risk profile for patients on treatment.
BridgeBio released early data from its Phase I/II CANaspire clinical trial, indicating that BBP-812 might be a promising genetherapy for the ultra-rare Canavan disease.
” For example, Torrance recently met with an expert from the Broad Institute who has been looking into genetherapies and says genetherapy can completely change how drugs are built. Exscientia currently has three candidates in phase one trials. Often it’ll be quite serendipitous.”
At the time of Synagis’s approval, it was believed that continuous improvements in monoclonal antibody therapy and RSV drug development would follow, says Dr. Janet Englund, professor of Paediatric Infectious diseases at the University of Washington. However, subsequent RSV drugs, like Medimmune’s motavizumab, failed in clinical trials.
Several LNP-based therapies are currently being evaluated in the clinical trials; majority of these are conducted for treating breast cancer, ovarian cancer and lung cancer. In addition, these can be modified with ligands in order to improve the specificity and selectivity of the genetherapy and reduce off-target effects.
The new year began with a fairly low level of clinical trial news. Arcturus Therapeutics got the FDA go-ahead for its Phase II trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate ARCT-021. The trial will enroll 600 participants, with 450 receiving ARCT-021 and 150 receiving placebo. FBX-101 is a first-in-human AAV genetherapy.
those that modify the expression of an individual’s genes or repair abnormal genes) has entered clinical practice, including 11 RNA therapeutics, 2 in vivo genetherapies, and 2 gene-modified cell therapies. greater safety, transient and reversible effect on gene expression). References.
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