PLOS: DNA Science

MARCH 28, 2024

FDA classifies it as a “nonsteroidal treatment” – not a gene therapy, but it affects gene expression. Results from the study that led to the FDA approval appeared in The Lancet Neurology in April 2024 with commentary. A gene-based treatment would have to alter many cells to exert a noticeable effect.

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Broad Institute

MAY 16, 2024

Gene therapy could potentially treat a range of severe genetic brain disorders, which currently have no cures and few treatment options. Since we came to the Broad we’ve been focused on the mission of enabling gene therapies for the central nervous system,” said Deverman, senior author on the study. “If

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One expert views Amtagvi’s approval as a catalyst for further investment in TIL therapies, akin to how Kymriah’s 2017 clearance buoyed CAR-T treatment.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Elevidys sales have increased since the FDA made a controversial choice to expand the therapy's use. Now, Sarepta is abandoning a successor to its drug Exondys 51, citing an “evolving" treatment landscape.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Valentine — On November 22, 2022, FDA approved CSL Behring’s BLA for Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), an AAV-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with Hemophilia B who currently use Factor IX prophylaxis therapy, have current or historical life-threatening hemorrhage, or have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.

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Eye on FDA

AUGUST 4, 2021

As more drugs are being approved, is FDA getting less advice than in the past? FDA maintains a vast network of outside advisors to provide input and counsel to the agency related to decisions on policy as well as product approvals. There are 31 advisory committees on matters ranging from food to medical devices to pediatric care.

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Drugs.com

JUNE 23, 2023

Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the drug Elevidys, the first gene therapy for the treatment of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The groundbreaking treatment will not be cheap: FRIDAY, June 23, 2023 -- The U.S.

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Drugs.com

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two milestone gene therapies for sickle cell disease, including the first treatment ever approved that uses gene-editing technology.Casgevy, developed by Vertex. FRIDAY, Dec. 8, 2023 -- The U.S.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 20, 2023

The company said limitations on "bridging treatment" used to hold cancer in check could be to blame, and is working with the FDA to change the study's protocol.

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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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Drugs.com

AUGUST 12, 2024

Food and Drug Administration declined to approve it as treatment for. MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2024 -- Advocates for the use of the psychedelic drug MDMA (midomafetamine) to treat mental health conditions were delivered a setback on Friday after the U.S.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

MARCH 13, 2023

Who better than people living with a condition to inform drug companies, physicians, academics, and the FDA on what it is like to live with their condition, what symptoms most impact their lives, what goes into their decision about whether to participate in a clinical trial, and what kind of treatment effects would be most meaningful to them?

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Drugs.com

JUNE 23, 2023

Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the drug Elevidys, the first gene therapy for the treatment of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The groundbreaking treatment will not be cheap: FRIDAY, June 23, 2023 -- The U.S.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The agency said the benefit of approved treatments like Gilead’s Yescarta still outweighs any such risk, but the alert could slow drugmaker efforts to develop the treatments for wider use.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The FDA-approved therapy, called Palforzia, was little used, leading Nestle to abandon a business it had secured in a $2.6 billion deal three years ago.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 7, 2024

A vote against MDMA-assisted therapy set back a high-profile treatment. Proponents argue the panel offered few solutions to longstanding problems, making the path forward unclear.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Expert advisers to the agency voted 17-1 that Brainstorm's clinical trial data did not show the company's stem cell treatment was effective for treating ALS.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Expert advisers to the agency voted 17-1 that Brainstorm's clinical trial data did not show the company's stem cell treatment was effective for treating ALS.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

JULY 17, 2024

Importantly, the Hub is intended to establish a new model within FDA, which leverages cross-Agency expertise in providing guidance and conducting reviews for products for rare disease populations. By Sarah Wicks & James E. Valentine & Frank J. those reviewed by the CDER Division of Rare Diseases and Medical Genetics).

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Stem cell transplants have saved patients’ lives time and time again, which led us to launch our own Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program. Regarding CAR-T cell therapy, could you highlight the promising findings that have been identified in the early stages of drug discovery, as well as potential challenges?

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Executives at the biotech say they’re trying to get ahead of the payer and production challenges that will face their gene editing treatment exa-cel, which is now under FDA review.

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Drugs.com

JUNE 30, 2023

Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a costly single-dose gene therapy for patients with severe hemophilia A. The treatment, Roctavian (valoctocogene roxaparvovec), will cost $2.9 FRIDAY, June 30, 2023 -- The U.S. million for a single.

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Drugs.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel treatment for advanced melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. becomes the first cellular therapy approved to. MONDAY, Feb. 19, 2024 -- The U.S. Amtagvi, made by Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc.,

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ASPET

JANUARY 31, 2024

Despite the standard of care therapy which includes surgical resection, temozolomide chemotherapy, radiation and the newly added tumor treating fields, median survival remains only ~20 months. Our results suggest that lucanthone may function as a potential treatment option for GBM tumors that are not amenable to TMZ treatment.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Casgevy, the commercial product formerly known as exa-cel, is administered by taking stem cells out of a patient’s bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory, with the modified cells then infused back into the patient after conditioning treatment to prepare the bone marrow.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

APRIL 23, 2024

The complete response letter for Abeona’s treatment is one of several manufacturing setbacks for cell and gene therapy developers in recent years.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MAY 31, 2024

Ahead of an advisory panel meeting, agency staff identified several sticking points in the clinical results backing Lykos’ ecstasy-based treatment for PTSD.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 30, 2023

The agency granted a long-awaited clearance on Thursday, but unexpected aspects of the hemophilia treatment’s label had some investors worried about its commercial prospects.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

AUGUST 15, 2023

The agency had paused testing after a patient death, but is now permitting more types of bridging treatment to help keep participants’ disease at bay.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays a pivotal role in fostering the development of treatments for rare diseases through its Orphan Products Grants Program. Each year, FDA selects a limited number of clinical trials to fund to help sponsors pursue development of medical products for rare diseases and advance their field.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

MARCH 26, 2024

Sasinowski — On March 21st, FDA announced the approval of the first nonsteroidal therapy for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) (FDA press release available here ). By Charles G. Raver & James E. Valentine & Frank J. Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.’s

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

AUGUST 16, 2023

The decision stands in contrast to the agency’s plans for a would-be rival gene editing treatment from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics that is also under a regulatory review.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 13, 2024

2 Unmet needs in lung cancer treatment Recent decades have seen significant advancements in lung cancer treatment, especially with the introduction of targeted therapies and immunotherapies, which have notably improved survival rates. 7 Recent clinical studies highlight promising developments in c-MET-targeting ADCs for NSCLC.

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Agency IQ

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In a first, FDA tackles treatments for stimulant use disorder A new draft guidance from the FDA gives developers a roadmap to advance the development of novel therapies to address stimulant use disorders.

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Drugs.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel treatment for advanced melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.Amtagvi, made by Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc., becomes the first cellular therapy approved to. MONDAY, Feb. 19, 2024 -- The U.S.

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 29, 2024

What potential advantages does the CD5 modulation strategy offer over traditional CAR-T therapies? MR : Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is very effective in treating patients with B-cell lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma, where we have six FDA-approved drugs.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 5, 2023

There is a high unmet medical need in this area because while other candidates have shown early signs of clinical activity, there is still a need for therapies with improved safety and efficacy profiles. It also supports the argument for developing ZW171 for the treatment of other MLSN-expressing solid tumours.

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