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

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for bluebird bio ’s Zynteglo (betibeglogene autotemcel, beti-cel) for the treatment of the underlying genetic cause of beta?thalassemia thalassemia in adult and paediatric patients. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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High risk, high reward – the future of CAR-T therapy in CLL

Pharmaceutical Technology

Autologous CAR-T therapy does not easily lend itself to treating CLL, as it relies on extracting functional T-cells from the patient’s blood and genetically modifying them in vitro. Autologous CAR-T agents are now becoming the standard of care for patients in the third line and later settings, providing lucrative returns for these agents.

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Moderna partners with Life Edit for mRNA gene editing therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Moderna has entered a strategic research and development partnership with ElevateBio’s Life Edit Therapeutics to discover and develop new in-vivo mRNA gene editing therapies. Our novel editing systems have the potential to precisely modify gene targets for both in vivo and ex vivo therapeutic development.”

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Intellia Gets FDA Clearance to Start First Ever Phase III Trial for an In Vivo CRISPR Drug

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Intellia said NTLA-2001 is the first investigational in vivo CRISPR-based gene editing therapy cleared to enter late-stage clinical development. As an in vivo therapy, it can edit genes inside the body rather than in cells extracted from patients. ATTR amyloidosis is a rare, progressive and fatal disease.

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Katie Porter attacks pharma

World of DTC Marketing

Smaller biotechs that are developing new drugs usually don’t have the resources to take new drugs to market. The cost of bringing a drug to market decreased from $2,168 million in 2018 to $1,981 in 2019. Still, she is missing a lot of facts at a time when hospital and health insurance costs are soaring. percent from 2018.

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Precision Bio climbs on near-$1.5bn sickle cell pact with Novartis

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Novartis has shouldered its way into the in vivo gene editing category via a deal with US biotech Precision BioSciences, focused on a therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD). billion in potential milestones if the project advances through development and onto the market. billion agreement that started in 2020.

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Merck and Orna partner for RNA technology-based vaccines and therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Merck (MSD outside North America) has entered a partnership agreement with Orna Therapeutics for discovering, developing and marketing various programmes based on next-generation RNA technology. These programmes will include therapies and vaccines in infectious disease and oncology areas.

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