Gene therapy
May 12, 2023
Gene Therapy in Rare Disorders: Acceptance in Europe Faces Challenges
By bringing life-changing benefits to people with rare diseases and cancers, cell and gene therapies are reshaping the field of medicine. These treatments have recently gained tremendous publicity for meeting long-standing unmet needs and being extremely costly. But high production costs are limiting patient access...
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May 08, 2023
Watershed Moment for Cell Therapies and Complicated Journey of Gene Therapies in Japan
In recent years, the development of cell and gene therapies has provided a new avenue for the treatment of rare disorders. This article will discuss the current and future scenarios of cell and gene therapies in rare disorders with cancer indications as an exception, in Japan. Cell therapy is a treatment in which l...
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May 01, 2023
Cell and Gene Therapies for Diabetes Treatment: A Permanent Cure for Patients?
Diabetes is the 8th largest cause of death in the United States (although its prevalence may be underreported). Diabetes affects more than 37 million people in the United States, and 1 in every 5 are unaware of their condition. Over 96 million US adults—more than one-third—have prediabetes, and more than 8 out of 1...
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Apr 14, 2023
Vertex/CRISPR’s Gene-editing Therapy exa-cel: Inch Ahead of Rival
Vertex Pharma and CRISPR Therapeutics are the first companies to seek FDA clearance for a gene-editing therapy. Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have gotten closer to introducing exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), a one-time treatment for sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta-...
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Jan 24, 2023
BeiGene’s Brukinsa Approval; FDA Approval to Seagen’s TUKYSA; NICE Recommends Alnylam’s Amvuttra; FDA Approves Brenzavvy for Type 2 Diabetes; Roche’s Tecentriq to be Filed for Early-stage Liver Cancer; FDA Lifts Hold on Astellas’ Pompe Gene Therapy
FDA Approves BeiGene’s Brukinsa for CLL/SLL BeiGene's Brukinsa (zanubrutinib) for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. CLL is a common type of leukemia, accounting for approximately 25% of all new cases each year. SLL is...
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Jan 03, 2023
Gilead Buys Out Rights to Cancer Therapy from Jounce; FDA Places Clinical Hold on Biogen’s Orelabrutinib; Pfizer Announces Phase 3 BENEGENE-2 Study Result; FDA Approves MediWound’s NexoBrid; UCB Announces FDA Acceptance of BLA Resubmission for Bimekizumab; FDA Approves TG Therapeutics’ Briumvi
Gilead Buys Out Rights to Cancer Therapy from Jounce for USD 67 Million Gilead Sciences must have liked what it saw in a two-year-old collaboration with Jounce Therapeutics for CCR8-targeting cancer immunotherapy because the company has just agreed to own the program fully. The drug in question, GS-1811 (formerl...
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Dec 20, 2022
Fourth FDA Approval for AbbVie’s Vraylar; FDA Approves Ferring’s Adstiladrin for NMIBC; Merck and Moderna’s mRNA Cancer Vaccine Trial; EMA Recommends the CSL’s Gene Therapy for Hemophilia B; CHMP Backs Amicus’ Pompe Disease Therapy; Takeda Announces the Phase 3 AURORA Study Result
AbbVie Secures Fourth FDA Approval for Vraylar AbbVie has received its fourth FDA approval for Vraylar, adding major depressive disorder (MDD) adjunctive therapy to a list that includes schizophrenia and manic and depressive episodes in bipolar disorder. According to AbbVie, the approval makes Vraylar (cariprazi...
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Nov 29, 2022
C4X Discovery and AstraZeneca Signs Deal; FDA Rejects Spectrum’s Poziotinib; Orphan Drug Designation to Tenaya’s Gene Therapy; EC Approves Regeneron’s Libtayo; Response Letter to Poziotinib for Metastatic NSCLC Harboring HER2 Exon 20 Mutations; Japan Approves Trastuzumab Deruxtecan for HER2+ Breast Cancer
C4X Discovery Holdings and AstraZeneca Signs Exclusive USD 402 Million Global License C4X Discovery Holdings has signed an exclusive global license with AstraZeneca worth up to USD 402 million for the development and commercialization of the NRF2 Activator program. The agreement will allow AstraZeneca to develop...
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Nov 18, 2022
Gene Therapy: The Next Milestone in Treating Complex Diseases
Gene therapy is an experimental technique that introduces functional genes into a patient’s body to counteract or replace defective ones, thereby curing disease without using pharmaceuticals, radiotherapy, or surgery. Genetic defects that are difficult to treat with drugs or antibodies can be treated with therapy w...
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Oct 04, 2022
Zealand Pharma’s Phase III Results of Glepaglutide; FDA Approves Amylyx’s ALS Drug Relyvrio; Novo Nordisk and Ventus Therapeutics Signs Licencing Deal; FDA Approves Futibatinib; Sarepta Files Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for FDA Approval; Biogen and Eisai’s Lcanemab Phase III Study
Zealand Pharma Announces the Positive Topline Results from its Phase III trial of Glepaglutide Zealand Pharma A/S, a biotech company specializing in peptide-based medicines, announced positive topline results from its phase III trial of glepaglutide. In the evenly randomized double-blind trial, 106 patients with...
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