Bio Pharma Dive

MARCH 31, 2023

The biotech tools supplier is acquiring Polyplus, a French company that makes components essential to the viral vector backbones of gene therapies.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

PTC Therapeutics has gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its new gene therapy, Kebilidi (eladocagene exuparvovec), for treating aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency. The therapy is administered into the brain’s motor-control region through a specialized neurosurgery technique.

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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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XTalks

MARCH 19, 2025

A 16-year-old patient died after treatment with Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec), Sarepta Therapeutics gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The patient suffered acute liver failure several months after receiving the therapy in December. Sarepta is reviewing all available data.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Ast ellas Pharma has announced plans to make a strategic investment to back the development of Taysha Gene Therapies’ adeno-associated virus (AAV) development programmes for Rett syndrome and giant axonal neuropathy (GAN). Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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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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Bio Pharma Dive

JUNE 27, 2023

The treatment could become Pfizer’s first marketed gene therapy, an area the pharma has poured significant resources into in recent years.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT), the California-based biotechnology company focused on developing gene therapies for rare and large market diseases, has had the FDA place a clinical hold onto its Fabry disease (FD) gene therapy program (4D-310).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

After several setbacks, bluebird bio bounces back with two major FDA gene therapy approvals. Last month, Zynteglo (betibeglogene autotemcel), or beti-cel, was approved as a one-time potentially curative gene therapy for patients with beta-thalassaemia who require regular blood transfusions.

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Bio Pharma Dive

MAY 17, 2022

The treatment, which is designed to treat Sanfilippo syndrome, could become Ultragenyx's first gene therapy to reach market in the U.S., according to the biotech's CEO.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 31, 2023

Gene therapy company uniQure has entered into a global licensing agreement with Apic Bio for APB-102 to treat patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1). APB-102 is designed to be a one-time, intrathecally administered gene therapy for ALS patients.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 25, 2022

The European Commission (EC) has granted conditional marketing authorisation (CMA) for BioMarin Pharmaceutical ’s gene therapy, Roctavian (valoctocogene roxaparvovec), to treat adults with severe haemophilia A (congenital Factor VIII deficiency). Topic sponsors are not involved in the creation of editorial content.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

On November 2, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) released its updated evidence aimed at measuring the clinical effectiveness and cost of the two haemophilia gene therapies. Known by the brand name Roctavian, BioMarin’s haemophilia A therapy valoctocogene roxaparvovec could be fairly priced in the range of $1.95–1.96

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 3, 2023

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 gene therapy. Polyplus, based in Strasbourg, France, produces key components in the production of viral vectors used in cell and gene therapies.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

On February 7, at a town hall organised to discuss clinical trial designs for gene therapies, FDA experts pushed pharma players to look for ways to establish clinical effectiveness despite the challenges in recruiting patients with rare diseases.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 19, 2023

Indian pharmaceutical company Laurus Labs has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) to bring new gene therapy products to the market. Laurus Labs will be responsible for launching these products in India and emerging markets.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 10, 2023

On 10 March, the National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) opened a new Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) with the aim of improving the UK’s ability to develop and manufacture cell and gene therapies. The NHSBT hopes the CBC will increase the UK’s competitiveness within the market.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

CSL announced the first patient with haemophilia B has been treated with its recently approved gene therapy Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec). Hemgenix is the first and only gene therapy approved for haemophilia B. per dose, it is the most expensive single-use gene therapy in the US.

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Bio Pharma Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Pfizer’s decision to halt further marketing of Beqvez is further sign of the sparse patient interest in gene therapies for the bleeding condition.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 5, 2023

Capsida Biotherapeutics and Eli Lilly and Company ’s wholly owned subsidiary Prevail Therapeutics have announced a partnership for the development of non-invasive gene therapies for central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 7, 2022

For many decades, investigators have been working on innovative therapeutic modalities known as cell and gene therapies, which use modified versions of the body’s own cellular and genetic material to treat and potentially cure these diseases. A new frontier in cancer research.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 10, 2023

Cell One Partners has announced a strategic collaboration with the Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM) to expedite the development and commercialisation of cell and gene therapies. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 22, 2022

Pipeline therapies within the diabetic macular oedema (DME) space have recently gathered interest following the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) Annual Meeting, which took place on 13–16 July.

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Bio Pharma Dive

AUGUST 18, 2022

Its market launch is likely to be watched carefully by other gene therapy developers. Approved Wednesday for severe beta thalassemia, Zynteglo will test insurers’ willingness to pay for expensive one-time treatments.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JULY 9, 2021

Zynteglo sales have been on hold since February, when a patient in a clinical trial of another, related Bluebird medicine developed leukemia.

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Bio Pharma Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Treatment is now mostly of infants newly diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, as many of those previously eligible either already received Zolgensma or other drugs from Biogen and Roche.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JANUARY 18, 2022

The FDA has extended by three months its review of Bluebird's treatments for beta thalassemia and a rare brain disorder, the latest delay in the company's lengthy road to market in the U.S.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 13, 2023

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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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 10, 2021

Europe market has proved so hostile to gene therapies when it comes to pricing and reimbursement for gene therapies that bluebird bio has decided to quit the market altogether, according to Andrew Obenshain, president of its severe genetic diseases unit. market and will wind down in Europe.

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Bio Pharma Dive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

With supply and labor constraints creating backlogged custom-manufacturing schedules, developers have felt the pain in cost and speed to market.

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Bio Pharma Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Fitusiran, which Sanofi licensed from Alnylam, could finally get to market after trial delays and safety concerns slowed its progress. But gene therapies and other new medicines might provide competition.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 30, 2024

The cell and gene therapy market is accelerating in its evolution, as well as commercial approvals, with new therapeutic options for patients

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The biotherapeutics market is rapidly growing, with 2021 seeing the highest-ever cell and gene therapy approval number. Gene therapy uses DNA to manipulate cells and correct defective genes, whereas cell therapy is the infusion or transplantation of cells into a patient.

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Bio Pharma Dive

AUGUST 27, 2020

The results keep Bluebird Bio on track to seek approval of the experimental treatment, known as eli-cel, in Europe later this year and in the U.S.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 27, 2023

The FDA has accepted a biologics license application (BLA) for Pfizer's fidanacogene elaparvovec to treat adults with haemophilia B.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 20, 2022

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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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this issue: Digital jobs in UK life sciences, generative AI changes drug discovery, and how robotics is impacting gene therapy manufacturing.

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