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Patients show 91% response to allogeneic CAR-T therapy

Drug Discovery World

Investigators saw a 91% overall response rate (ORR) in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) following treatment with allogeneic CAR-T therapy P-BCMA-ALLO1 and lymphodepletion. P-BCMA-ALLO1 is an investigational non-viral, stem cell memory T cell (TSCM)-rich allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy.

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‘Off-the-shelf’ CAR-T secures FDA advanced therapy designation

Drug Discovery World

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to Roche and Poseida Therapeutics’ P-BCMA-ALLO1. Poseida also announced the initiation of a Phase Ib portion of the ongoing trial of in patients with multiple myeloma, which triggered a $20 million payment from Roche.

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Drug’s unique mechanism of action targets schizophrenia abnormalities

Drug Discovery World

Long-term, 25% of treated patients treated with evenamide as an add-on therapy met the criteria for remission, a result that Stephen Marder, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience & Human Behavior, has described as “remarkable and unprecedented”.

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Precision cancer therapies: Where are we?

Drug Discovery World

DDW’s Diana Spencer reports on the recent Avacta Therapeutics Science Day, which explored the latest exciting developments in targeted treatments for cancer and asked what advances the future might bring. The company anticipates the drug will enter Phase I clinical trials in 2024.

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Macrophage cell therapy: a new hope for chronic liver disease patients

Drug Target Review

Once a patient develops advanced cirrhosis/end-stage liver disease there are no specific therapies to significantly avoid major decompensations and death in the next few years. Could you describe the platform of macrophage biology and cell engineering used by Resolution Therapeutics in developing their cell therapies?

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What can patients do to give input into clinical trial design? 

Drug Discovery World

If anything, this period has been a reminder that people are the primary reason we do what we do, and the Patient Access, Healthcare & People track at Advanced Therapies Europe 2022 allowed DDW’s Multimedia Editor Megan Thomas to share several reflections on the topic. . Never before was the whole world a potential patient.

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Expert view: What’s next for cell and gene therapy?

Drug Discovery World

What are the global innovations in cell and gene therapy? What opportunities and challenges are emerging and can therapies get to market faster? The deeper the understanding of product and process from a characterisation standpoint, the smoother the regulatory conversations and development pathway will be.” The solution?

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