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AUGUST 16, 2021

Better activation of innate and adaptive immune responses was achieved with CV2CoV, resulting in faster response onset, higher titers of antibodies, and stronger memory B and T cell activation as compared to the first-generation candidate, CVnCoV. “In Induction of innate immunity was investigated via specific cytokine markers.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

The applications of mRNA-based therapies in cancer research represent one of the next groundbreaking steps toward improved cancer treatments. Adoptive T Cell therapies, therapeutic antibodies, and immunomodulatory proteins represent just some of the potentially beneficial treatment strategies for successful mRNA cancer trials.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 22, 2023

These “acute inflammatory lesions” then attract other myeloid cells, as well as self-reactive T and B cells that belong to the immune system’s second arm, known as the “adaptive immune system” and directly attack the myelin covering. “Current MS therapies do not specifically target myeloid cells.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Genome engineering and gene therapies that manipulate DNA sequences in cells have driven a biotechnological revolution over the past decade. 9 In addition, host immune responses further add to the complexity of developing cell-specific AAV capsids for clinical applications.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

In most cancers, the tumour evolves by acquiring mutations that confer growth advantages or resistance to therapies. These neoantigens are identified by T cells of the immune system as foreign proteins and thus trigger an immune response. Neoantigens are recognised as non-self and trigger an immune response.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The idea to redirect an immune response against a pathogen to fight cancer goes back to 1891, when Manhattan bone surgeon William Coley became intrigued by a man’s neck tumor that melted away after he contracted a nasty Streptococcus skin infection. For many patients, BCG stops the cancer.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Developing cell therapies exclusively with healthy donor material introduces substantial risks that can hinder clinical translation and jeopardise the entire program. Diseased cells are likely to be more fragile or less abundant, making it difficult to obtain enough for therapy.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

2D cell models are often engineered to over-express the target of interest and so lack its temporal behaviour in its native or disease state. This is particularly pertinent in immune-based cell therapies like CAR-T, where animals do not mimic the human immune response.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 9, 2023

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 12, 2021

“The T-cell and NK-cell target discovery approach complements our portfolio aimed at turning cold tumors hot and redirecting the innate immune system to elicit a sustained and durable immune response against tumors.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Merck will select cancer targets and harness Janux’s proprietary Tumor Activated T Cell Engager (TRACTr) technology to engineer novel, T cell engager drug candidates. Janux technology can be applied to immunotherapies that target all three stages of an anti-tumor immune response.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 26, 2023

With further research, these innovative nanoparticles could represent a major breakthrough in the fields of gene therapy and personalised medicine. The researchers are optimistic that, with additional improvements, these nanoparticles could be used as an inhalable therapy to treat a range of lung ailments, including cystic fibrosis.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This sugar-coated mucin binding to checkpoint receptors signals that the cancer cell poses no threat, consequently blocking the immune response. Tender elaborated that these results in immune cells ignoring the cancer rather than eliminating it, as they normally would.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 11, 2021

a San Diego-based biotechnology company with an array of technology platforms for antibody discovery and optimization, and novel NK and T cell engager generation, today announced licensing of a panel of its anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody clones to IGM Biosciences for COVID-19 therapy development.

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DrugBank

MAY 6, 2024

Unlike conventional chemical-based medicines, biologics offer targeted therapies derived from living cells, which can result in more effective and personalized treatments. A Wave of Innovations The year 2024 has already proven to be significant for the field of biologics, witnessing a notable increase in FDA approvals.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Nasdaq: SYBX ), a clinical stage company bringing the transformative potential of synthetic biology to medicine, today announced SYNB1891 has advanced into the combination therapy stage of the ongoing Phase 1 trial. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Synlogic, Inc. Synlogic’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The Agreement extends an existing relationship between the companies and gives Pandion the option to use standard phage display or mammalian display as the engines for the discovery of next generation antibodies. For further information, please visit: [link]. View source version on businesswire.com: [link]. Source link.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JANUARY 4, 2024

The end-of-year FDA approval of the first CRISPR-based therapy , for sickle cell disease, came a mere dozen years after Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier introduced the technology. The microbes deploy them to dismantle the genetic material of infecting viruses, a little like an immune response.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The NIH continues to support the development of some very innovative therapies to control SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. They found in mouse models of severe COVID-19 that intravenous infusion of an engineered ACE2 decoy prevented lung damage and death. How’s that?

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Researchers from the Tumor Immunotherapy Discovery Engine ( TIDE ) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, AbbVie, and Calico Life Sciences report that the molecule simultaneously makes tumors more sensitive to immune attack and boosts the activity of immune cells to fight tumors in mice.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 21, 2020

(Nasdaq: ACET), a biotechnology company discovering and developing allogeneic gamma delta T cell therapies for cancer and other diseases, today announced that the U.S. T cell therapy expressing a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting CD20 for treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). T cell therapy in NHL patients.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

Science (2024) Related content New gene delivery vehicle shows promise for human brain gene therapy My Quest to Cure Prion Disease — Before It’s Too Late | Sonia Vallabh | TED Prion diseases lead to rapid neurodegeneration and death and are caused by misshapen versions of the prion protein in the brain. Credit: Neumann EN, Bertozzi TM, et al.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

The vaccine targeted both the inner nucleocapsid (N) and the outer spike (S) proteins of the virus to maximize the immune response. The study showed this broad immune response led to the complete clearance of the virus in a matter of days after infection of previously-vaccinated primates. link] 1. About ImmunityBio.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 17, 2021

Syngeneic tumor animal models play a critical role because they use standard inbred mice that have a competent immune system, which is required to evaluate immune-modulating therapies. One consideration in using syngeneic models is that some drug candidates can cause a negative immune response not seen in humans.

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Using single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression in individual cells, the researchers have found how 86 major cytokines affect 17 immune cell types in mice. NH: This is the first single-cell resolution dictionary of each major immune cell type responding to each major cytokine in vivo at an unprecedented scale.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 6, 2021

Quantitative imaging of CD8 T cells enables quicker identification of drug efficacy, therefore potentially reducing the length of clinical trials, reducing costs and helping new therapies to advance to market faster, which ultimately will improve treatment and care of cancer patients. About ImaginAb. ImaginAb Inc.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 27, 2023

Entyvio ® should be used only in patients with inadequate response to conventional treatment. This approval is based on the MLN0002SC-3027 and MLN0002SC-3030 clinical trials, which are international Phase III trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Entyvio SC as a maintenance therapy. Injection 108mg / Syringes for S.C.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 6, 2021

New research from first-in-class marketed and investigational therapies in hemophilia, immune thrombocytopenia and acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura will be presented. Sanofi’s two marketed extended half-life factor replacement therapies shifted a two-decades-old treatment paradigm when launched in 2014. ePoster.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Former Sarepta Therapeutics executive Bo Cumbo left to launch his new gene therapy company, AavantiBio, with a $107 million Series A. AavantiBio’s strategic partnership with University of Florida’s Powell Gene Therapy Center provide their foundational research in rare genetic disorders. AavantiBio . Sirnaomics.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the past 25 years, T-cell therapies have gained significant ground in the treatment of cancer. Preclinical research on γδ T cells has made great strides since the cells were first identified in the 1980s, with γδ T-cell therapies from several companies, including IN8bio, now in or nearing clinical trials for various cancers.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tom Ireland writes about the companies and technologies that are reimagining phage therapy. Soon after its publication, scientists, journalists, and investors were revisiting ‘phage therapy’ as a promising alternative to our failing antibiotics. Read it on our website here. Illustration by David S. Fast forward to 2023.

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AUGUST 22, 2021

This is how many medical studies begin, said biomedical engineering professor Phil Bourne, who serves as founding dean for the School of Data Science. One of the most dangerous phenomena COVID-19 can trigger in your body is something called a cytokine storm, which is a potentially fatal amplification of an immune response.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a Phase I clinical trial of hAd5-COVID-19, the company’s novel COVID-19 vaccine candidate that targets both the inner nucleocapsid (N), engineered to activate T cells, and outer spike (S) protein, engineered to activate antibodies against the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

NK cells are among the front line of protection from infected and abnormal cells as part of the ‘innate immune response’. They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells).

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 4, 2021

. chPD1 will be used in the Company’s proprietary chimeric antigen receptor therapy (CAR-T) platform using gamma-delta T-cells (GD-T). Barber’s work will give Kiromic a significant acceleration in the clinical development of its therapy platform and an even more significant advantage over its competitors.

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Agency IQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Draft guidance on potency assays for CGT products garners extensive stakeholder input Late last year, the FDA published a draft update to its 2011 guidance on potency assays for cell and gene therapy products, unveiling a major shift in approach to the issue. How does “potency” apply to cell and gene therapy (CGT) products?

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

Their cone cells, which are responsible for color vision, don’t work like normal. But what happens if you restore these cone cells, using gene therapy? approved a gene therapy for hemophilia A for the first time. The therapy works by replacing beta-cells with “fresh” cells taken from a, err…dead person.

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