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JANUARY 31, 2023

Axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta, Kite) is a CAR-T therapy for adults with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) who have had two or more lines of systemic therapy. Around 5,500 people are diagnosed with DLBCL each year in England.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration just announced approval of Lenmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel), a gene therapy to treat the neurological condition metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). The history of gene therapy for MLD is compelling – DNA Science covered it for Rare Disease Day in 2021, here.

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MAY 16, 2023

What are the global innovations in cell and gene therapy? What opportunities and challenges are emerging and can therapies get to market faster? Curbishley explains that as the wave of new therapies in development continues to increase, global pressures on manufacturing availability will become more acute.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Where do you work, and can you tell us what you’re working on at the moment?  I work at Poolbeg Pharma, where we are developing novel treatments for diseases with unmet medical needs and large addressable markets, with programmes in oncology, infectious diseases and endocrinology.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong looks at the cell and gene therapy landscape, examining the challenges facing developers and the trends we can expect to see throughout the year. . There’s no doubt that cell and gene therapies present some of the most exciting opportunities for emerging drugs. billion, compared to $19.9 Cancer is king .

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MARCH 1, 2024

Pepaxto associated with increased risk of death The FDA is alerting patients and health care professionals that a clinical trial (OCEAN, Study OP-103) evaluating Pepaxto with dexamethasone showed an increased risk of death. The FDA has now suspended enrolment in all ongoing Pepaxto clinical trials.

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APRIL 25, 2023

University of California researchers have dosed the second participant in their clinical trial to identify a potential cure for HIV utilising CAR-T cell therapy. The trial is the first-in-human clinical study investigating the duo CAR-T cell therapy for the treatment of HIV. “We In 2021 there were an estimated 1.5

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MARCH 9, 2021

New data from 10 studies will be presented by Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) at the upcoming virtual International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson Diseases 2021 (AD/PD 2021), March 9-14, 2021. vice president of Alzheimer’s disease development unit, Eli Lilly and Company.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Positive high-level results from the FoCus Phase III trial in Wilson disease showed ALXN1840 met the primary endpoint with a statistically significant improvement in daily mean copper mobilisation from tissues, demonstrating superiority compared with standard-of-care (SoC) treatments. Wilson disease. 1, 2, 3.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 3, 2024

How does COUR Pharmaceuticals’ immune-modifying nanoparticle platform differ from traditional approaches to treating immune-mediated diseases? Essentially, our CNPs reprogramme the immune system by restoring balance and returning the body to a homeostatic state, offering a precise approach to treating immune-mediated diseases.

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JULY 11, 2023

Evotec and BMS aim to identify disease-modifying treatments for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases. There is a significant unmet medical need for therapies that slow down or reverse disease progression in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.

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JUNE 19, 2024

The mission of Lineage Cell Therapeutics is to deliver on some of the early promises of cell therapy. Cell therapy as a concept is a wonderful idea, but many of the early efforts never generated the kind of clinical data that gets people excited and leads to new medicines. Hearing aids also have all sorts of deficits.

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MAY 31, 2022

the completion of enrollment of its Phase 1 (Ph1), open-label trial of pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Ph1 clinical trial is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and?preliminary?efficacy?of of BRT-DA01 in patients with Parkinson’s disease.?. preliminary?efficacy?of

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

The results, which demonstrate that patients treated with Biogen’s portfolio of MS therapies mount an effective antibody response to COVID-19 vaccination, are being presented at the 37th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) virtual meeting, October 13-15, 2021.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Abstract Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a lethal disease that is prevalent worldwide. million people worldwide were living with HIV in 2021. Several agents are in clinical trials, including apricitabine, racivir, elvucitabine, doravirine, dapivirine, and elsulfavirine.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for donanemab, Eli Lilly and Company’s (NYSE: LLY) investigational antibody therapy for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of all cases 1.

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MAY 17, 2021

Sponsors using master protocols to test new drugs and therapies for treating or preventing COVID-19 should base their analyses on comparisons between control arm participants who were concurrently randomized, the FDA advised in a final guidance released yesterday. Read the guidance here: www.fdanews.com/05-17-21-COVID-19.pdf.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

This year’s event will cover some of the most exciting advancements in areas spanning screening, automation, high content imaging, disease models, cell and gene therapies and how innovation is being driven through partnerships and collaborations. Cell and gene therapies. In 2021, levels of investment hit an all-time high at $22.7

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Pfizer has started dosing in a phase 3 study evaluating its investigational gene therapy, PF-06939926, in young male patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The trial plans to enroll 99 boys aged 4 to 7 years across 55 sites in 15 countries. PF-06939926 received Fast-Track designation from the FDA in October. Source link.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The field of cell and gene therapies (CGT) is constantly evolving, and there has been significant progress in this area of research. However, despite the promise of these therapies, the regulations governing them lag the science, which in turn hinders the clinical translation of these novel medicines.

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MARCH 13, 2021

Further, prespecified exploratory analyses showed donanemab slowed the accumulation of tau across key brain regions in patients affected by Alzheimer’s disease. “This is the first late-stage study in Alzheimer’s disease to meet its primary endpoint at the primary analysis. Apostolova, M.D.,

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The approval by the European Commission was based on results from the Pathfinder clinical trial programme, which included the pivotal Navigator Phase III trial in which Tezspire demonstrated superiority across every primary and key secondary endpoint in patients with severe asthma, compared to placebo, when added to standard therapy.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The FDA approved Orserdu (elacestrant) for the treatment of postmenopausal women or adult men, with ER+, HER2-, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer with disease progression following at least one line of endocrine therapy. The drug was granted orphan drug designation by the FDA in May 2021.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Aruvant Sciences, a private company focused on developing gene therapies for rare diseases, and Lonza announced today their agreement in support of ARU-1801, Aruvant’s one-time investigational gene therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD). NEW YORK , Jan.

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JULY 29, 2021

econd Quarter 2021 Product Sales Increased 21% Year-Over-Year Primarily Driven by Veklury. Nasdaq: GILD) announced today its results of operations for the second quarter 2021. “We Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results. Total second quarter 2021 revenue of $6.2 As of June 30, 2021, Gilead had $7.4

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APRIL 14, 2023

This is even more relevant for combination therapies or bispecific antibodies. Clinical trial results of those combinations and bispecifics were on numerous occasions underwhelming and didn’t stand up to their expected efficacy – not even in an additive way.

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APRIL 7, 2021

today announced new data from its expansive neuroscience portfolio will be presented at the 2021 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting, to be held virtually from April 17-22. . Key AbbVie abstracts and presentation details for the 2021 AAN Annual Meeting program are outlined below. Clinical Trials Plenary Session.

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JULY 4, 2023

These therapies have broadened treatment options for patients to expand beyond the more traditional small molecule drug alternatives. Patients and caregivers also assess the benefits offered by different therapies, weighing the progression-free survival with their off-target effects. 3D rendering of Antibody Drug Conjugate Molecules.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Leqembi’s prospects in the Alzheimer’s disease market remain uncertain despite its advantages over Aduhelm, says analytics company GlobalData. . Leqembi is the second anti-Aβ mAb approved by the FDA for the treatment of AD, following the FDA’s approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm (aducanumab) in 2021. .

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MAY 6, 2024

billion on R&D during 2021, with Germany and Switzerland being the biggest contributors, and around one fourth of clinical trials worldwide were performed in Europe 1. During the period 2016-2021, the Brazilian, Chinese and Indian markets grew by 11.7%, 6.7% The CDD will sponsor and manage KWF-supported trials.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Semaglutide manufacturer Novo Nordisk reported earlier this month that the drug reduces the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events by 20% in adults with overweight or obesity, as shown in the SELECT trial. However, these trials won’t be complete until 2026 at the earliest. It’s an exciting area,” he told The Guardian.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

25, 2021 — Recommendations are presented for the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand disease (VWD) in two clinical guidelines issued by the American Society of Hematology, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, National Hemophilia Foundation, and World Federation of Hemophilia and published online Jan.

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APRIL 8, 2021

The trial will continue to evaluate overall survival (OS), a key secondary endpoint. The safety profile of KEYTRUDA in this trial was consistent with that observed in previously reported studies. Most cases of RCC are discovered incidentally during imaging tests for other abdominal diseases. About KEYNOTE-564. In the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It’s also why pharmaceutical companies will look to acquire smaller biotechs and drug discovery companies, because a lot of the legwork into finding a suitable molecule for a disease has already been done. . This level of growth is unsurprising for an industry which will always look to the latest opportunities to drive science. .

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MARCH 11, 2021

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced that data from programs across its oncology portfolio and pipeline will be presented at the 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, to be held virtually April 10-15, 2021. LY3484356, an oral SERD, is currently being studied in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial.

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JULY 6, 2021

Sanofi highlights scientific innovations in the field of rare blood disorders at I STH 2021. New research from first-in-class marketed and investigational therapies in hemophilia, immune thrombocytopenia and acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura will be presented. ePoster Abstract # OC48.2

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