Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 19, 2023

Although only a small number of gene therapies have reached the market thus far, the industry is poised to grow quickly over the next few years. According to GlobalData’s clinical trials database, there are currently 1,231 planned and ongoing trials for gene therapies and gene-modified cell therapies alone.

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STAT News

MARCH 1, 2023

Tessera Therapeutics chief scientist Michael Holmes had just finished presenting a much-anticipated peek at a technology the company had previously said could “ revolutionize genetic medicine ” and “cure nearly any genetic disease.”

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XTalks

MARCH 21, 2024

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded approval to Orchard Therapeutics for its gene therapy Lenmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel) for the treatment of children with pre-symptomatic late infantile, pre-symptomatic early juvenile or early symptomatic early juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD).

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XTalks

MAY 26, 2023

Krystal Biotech’s Vyjuvek has been awarded US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to make it the first topical gene therapy for the treatment of wounds in patients with the rare, often debilitating skin disease dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). As a topical treatment, it is also the first readily redosable gene therapy.

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XTalks

MAY 17, 2023

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) announced this week that the Accelerating Medicines Partnership Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (AMP BGTC) has selected eight rare diseases for its clinical trial portfolio.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 26, 2023

MiNA Therapeutics has entered into a research collaboration and option licensing agreement with BioMarin Pharmaceutical to speed up the development of therapeutic ribonucleic acid activation (RNAa) candidates to treat rare genetic diseases. The new deal excludes oncology and other therapeutic areas outside the scope of genetic disease.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 16, 2023

That was the case when Thilini Gamage was to carry out one of the studies in her doctoral work with Professor Eirik Frengen at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo. They study gene variation and mutations that cause rare genetic diseases. A mutation is a permanent change in the genetic material.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Expeditious and accurate diagnoses are necessary for patients to access healthcare services and treatment options for rare genetic diseases. Increasing the efficiency of case analysis and interpretation is essential to providing timely care for patients with genetic diseases.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 22, 2023

Vyjuvek is a non-invasive, topical, re-dosable gene therapy that delivers functional human COL7A1 gene copies to offer wound healing. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva. The regulatory approval was supported by data from the GEM-1/2 and GEM-3 clinical trials.

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XTalks

APRIL 24, 2023

Rare diseases can often be progressive, chronic and fatal. Approximately 72 percent of rare diseases are genetic, and around 70 percent of rare genetic diseases emerge in childhood. Sadly, one-third of children with rare diseases die before their first birthday.

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Scienmag

MAY 2, 2022

WINSTON-SALEM, NC – May 2, 2022 — Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists working on CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing technology have developed a method to increase efficiency of editing while minimizing DNA deletion sizes, a key step toward developing gene editing therapies to treat genetic diseases.

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Scienmag

MAY 7, 2021

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 7, 2021 – In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a genetic cause of a rare neurological disorder marked by developmental delay and loss of coordination, or ataxia.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

AstraZeneca’s rare disease firm Alexion is set to expand its genomic medicine portfolio with the acquisition of gene editing specialist LogicBio Therapeutics, in a deal worth approximately $68 million. The post AstraZeneca pays record 660% premium for gene editing company LogicBio appeared first on.

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Scienmag

APRIL 21, 2021

New approach to gene therapy can correct any disease-causing mutation within a gene UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.

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Scienmag

MARCH 30, 2021

Credit: Gretel Nicholson, EXRC Scientists have discovered a new genetic disease, which causes some children’s brains to develop abnormally, resulting in delayed intellectual development and often early onset cataracts.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 17, 2022

The rights to the oRNA-LNP technology platform of Orna will be retained by the company, which will also progress various other fully owned programmes in oncology and genetic disease areas. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Scienmag

MAY 26, 2022

— CRISPR has ushered in the era of genomic medicine. A line of powerful tools has been developed from the popular CRISPR-Cas9 to cure genetic diseases. ITHACA, N.Y.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

A new EMA approval has expanded the use of Vertex Pharma’s exon-skipping cystic fibrosis therapy Symkevi to children as young as six if they have specific gene mutations. “Today’s approval brings us closer to our ultimate goal of providing medicines for all people with CF,” said Vertex’s chief executive Reshma Kewalramani.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has recommended the use of Libmeldy for the treatment of the rare genetic disease metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). Related: Gene Silencing Porphyria Treatment, Givlaari, Finally Wins Over England’s NICE Amid Stellar Long-Term Data. million (approximately $3.8 million USD).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 12, 2023

Solid Biosciences has entered a strategic research collaboration with Phlox Therapeutics to expedite the development of new therapies for rare cardiac diseases. Under the research partnership deal, the companies will develop new precision genetic medicines for a severe form of genetic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have published a study showing a promising approach to using drug repurposing to treat genetic diseases. A team from the […].

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vertex Pharma has ramped up its involvement in gene-editing medicines for the third time in a matter of months, agreeing a partnership with CRISPR specialist Arbor Biotechnologies that could be worth up to $1.2 If approved, it could mount a challenge to bluebird bio’s gene therapy Zynteglo, which is already approved in Europe.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A tiny child with a devastating genetic disease who wasn’t supposed to blow out the candles on his first birthday cake. Not only did this baby survive to do all these things, but he became a poster child for gene therapy with the regulators at the U.S. “They called him ‘The Boy.’ Who wasn’t supposed to sit up.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Roche’s oral treatment Evrysdi for the rare genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will be made available on the NHS in England, after NICE reached a three-year access agreement with the company. million price tag make it is the most expensive treatment ever approved for NHS funding.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

CTX is a rare, progressive genetic disorder caused by mutations in the CYP27A1 gene, which disrupts the livers ability to produce chenodeoxycholic acid, a bile acid. Preclinical studies in a CTX mouse model demonstrated that VTX806 normalizes toxic bile acid metabolite levels in the blood, liver, tendons and brain.

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 26, 2021

Shape Therapeutics inks gene therapy deal with Roche worth up to USD 3 Billion. Seattle biotech firm Shape Therapeutics has signed a deal potentially exceeding USD 3 billion with pharma giant Roche to bolster the development of gene therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. was swooped up by Real Chemistry in January.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 20, 2022

Armed with a $100 million second-round financing, CAMP4 Therapeutics is preparing to start the first clinical trial of a drug targeting regulatory RNA (regRNA) molecules that can be used to fine-tune the expression of genes. ” The post CAMP4 raises $100m to take lead RNA drugs into clinic appeared first on. .

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Known as myofibrillar myopathies, these rare genetic diseases lead to progressive muscle wasting, affecting muscle function and causing weakness. Credit: Credit: Stephen Greenspan.

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Scienmag

JUNE 23, 2021

A Canadian research team has uncovered a new mechanism involved in Bourneville tuberous sclerosis (BTS), a genetic disease of childhood. The team hypothesizes that a mutation in the TSC1 gene causes neurodevelopmental disorders that develop in conjunction with the disease.

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Scienmag

APRIL 6, 2021

Researchers developed a new animal model to study a rare genetic disease that can lead to blindness at the age of 40-50.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Initial results from the study show significantly diminished neurocognitive abilities in children with Dravet syndrome such that 10 year-olds are functioning below the level of a healthy 1 year-old even while they are being treated with available anti-epileptic medicines. Restoration of Interneuron Firing Frequency in a Dravet Mouse Model.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 8, 2023

ZFNs are also used to create a new generation of genetic disease models called isogenic human disease models. It is a chimeric endonuclease, which consists of a custom-designed ZF DNA-binding domain and the non-specific nuclease domain from the FokI restriction enzyme. They are the smallest type of programmable nuclease.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“FDA approval of Pombiliti and Opfolda is a testament to the power of science, medicine and our passionate determination to improve the lives of people living with Pompe disease. I am just so immensely proud of our team, and so very grateful to everyone who has worked to bring this medicine to this approval.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Charlie has spent more than 26 years working on the human genome – 22 of which were spent at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, helping to assemble the human genome and trying to understand the function of the genes contained within it. It’s essential to have hope in the future and in the promise that genomic medicine can bring.”.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Oxbryta is the first medicine approved in Europe that directly prevents sickle haemoglobin (HbS) polymerisation, the molecular basis of sickling and destruction of red blood cells in SCD, and has been tipped to become a $1 billion-plus blockbuster at peak. The post GBT claims EU approval for sickle cell drug Oxbryta appeared first on.

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Roots Analysis

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Since the introduction of a gene sequencing method by Frederick Sanger in 1977, the field of genomic data collection and analysis has evolved significantly. Advancement in DNA sequencing technologies have resulted in noteworthy developments in various healthcare-related research fields, such as diagnostics and personalized medicine.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Nasdaq:RYTM), a biopharmaceutical company aimed at developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of rare genetic diseases of obesity, announced today that the U.S. With this approval, Imcivree becomes the first-ever FDA approved therapy for these rare genetic diseases of obesity. BOSTON, Nov.

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