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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

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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First-of-its-kind cell therapy approved by FDA for rare soft tissue cancer

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Adaptimmune’s Tecelra is the first TCR cell therapy to reach market and, at $727,000, is also the priciest cellular medicine for cancer in the U.S.

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Navigating the challenges of cell therapies

Drug Target Review

Problem w/ CTs and foundational understanding of Vittoria: can you explore the current limitations of cell therapies and the challenges faced by patients and providers? Currently, only a small percentage of cancers can be effectively treated with cell therapies, and there is little diversity in the currently approved products.

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Orchard sells to Kyowa Kirin in gene therapy buyout

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Kyowa will pay nearly $400 million to acquire Orchard, which sells the gene therapy Libmeldy in Europe but has struggled to find paths to market for other experimental treatments.

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Pfizer’s hemophilia B gene therapy inches closer to regulatory approval

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The treatment could become Pfizer’s first marketed gene therapy, an area the pharma has poured significant resources into in recent years.

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Advancing regenerative cell therapy development

Drug Target Review

What distinguishes Alder Therapeutics’ approach to regenerative cell therapy development from traditional methods, and how does it aim to reduce risks in the preclinical phase? Traditional approaches to regenerative cell therapy development are defined by several challenges. For manufacturing, it’s no different.

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Older Siblings Made Possible Just-Approved Gene Therapy for Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

PLOS: DNA Science

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. She passed away in 2013.