Gene therapy
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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Sep 27, 2022
Daiichi Sankyo’s Ezharmia; Pfizer & Sangamo Hemophilia A Gene Therapy Trial; Approval for Fennec’s Pedmark; FDA Approves UBE and Santen’s OMLONTI; EC Approves AstraZeneca’s Tezspire; FDA Approves Selpercatinib; FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Eli Lilly’s Retevmo; GSK & Spero Announce Exclusive License Agreement
Daiichi Sankyo Receives the First Approval for its Blood Cancer Drug Ezharmia Daiichi Sankyo has received the first global approval for Ezharmia, a first-in-class dual EZH1 and EZH2 inhibitor for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). The Japanese Ministry of ...
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Aug 30, 2022
Aktis’s Novel Targeted Alpha Radiopharmaceuticals; Koye Partners with Sonde Health; Novartis to Spin Off Sandoz Business; Alcon to Buy Aerie Pharma; Fast Track Designation to Merck’s MK-2060; FDA Approves Ibrutinib for Chronic GvHD; French Authorities Clears BrainVectis’s Clinical Trial; Takeda’s Dengue Vaccine TAK-003 Gets Approval in Indonesia
Aktis Oncology Raises USD 84 Million To Advance Novel Targeted Alpha Radiopharmaceuticals Aktis Oncology has raised an additional USD 84 million in its Series A round, adding to the USD 72 million raised last year to help bring its radiopharmaceuticals to market. The extension to the first round included Merck's...
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Aug 19, 2022
AAV Vectors in Gene Therapy: How Recent Clinical Advances are Unraveling New Potentials?
There has been a renaissance in gene therapy attempts, spurred partly by the discovery and understanding of novel gene delivery vectors. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a non-enveloped virus that may be designed to carry DNA to target cells and has sparked considerable interest in the area, particularly in clinical...
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May 03, 2022
VBL Therapeutics’ VB-111 (ofranergene obadenovec); BMS’s mavacamten (Camzyos); Merck’s KEYTRUDA; AstraZeneca and Daiichi’s Enhertu; Pfizer/Biohaven’s VYDURA (rimegepant); AstraZeneca’s Ultomiris; Supernus’s Viloxazine (Qlebree); AbbVie’s Rinvoq
FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to VB-111 for Platinium-resistant Ovarian Cancer The FDA has given VBL Therapeutics’ VB-111 (ofranergene obadenovec), a targeted anticancer viral gene therapy, fast track designation for use as a viable therapeutic option in patients with platinum-resistant Ovarian Cancer. VB...
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Feb 08, 2022
Biogen’s Aduhelm; FDA Approves Sanofi’s Enjaymo; NHS & Orchard Signs a Deal; Bristol’s Breyanzi & Abecma; Pharming’s Leniolisib; Eli Lilly’s Verzenio Trial; UCB’ Zilucoplan Trials Result; Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Drug Donanemab
Biogen's Aduhelm Marketing and Approval are Under Scrutiny in New FTC and SEC Investigations Biogen can't seem to get a break when it comes to the Alzheimer's disease drug Aduhelm. Along with limited sales and a constraining Medicare coverage plan, the medicine is now facing additional scrutiny as part of a pair...
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Nov 26, 2021
Avrobio’s Gene Therapy for Cystinosis Treatment: A New Hope to Overcome the Existing Medical Unmet Needs
Cystinosis is a genetic condition that causes the buildup of the amino acid "cystine" in the cells of the body is known as cystinosis. Due to the excessive accumulation of cystine in various cells, organs, tissues, including the kidneys, eyes, liver, thyroid, muscles, pancreas, brain, and white blood cells of the b...
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Oct 18, 2021
Development of Gene Therapies in Dermatology
What is Gene Therapy and Is the Skin Suitable for Gene Therapy? Since its first discovery, conceptualization in 1972, and successful application in 1990 by W. French Anderson, gene therapy has been a revolutionary game-changer in the field of biotechnology and healthcare. Now, its scope reaches beyond autoimmune...
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May 11, 2021
Abingworth & Alebund’s Finacial Closing; Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Expanded Use; Biogen and Capsigen Deal
Abingworth Achieves Financial Close, Raises USD 582 Million Abingworth, a London-based venture capital firm, has announced the closing of its new Clinical Co-Development Fund 2 (ACCD 2) worth USD 582 million, however, the fund was aiming to gather USD $350 million. Not long ago, the company also closed ...
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Mar 15, 2021
Hemophilia B Market: How Pipeline Therapies are Transforming the Treatment Hemisphere?
An X-linked recessive disorder, Hemophilia occurs predominantly in males with females being the carriers. Patients diagnosed with Hemophilia usually lack one of the two proteins essential for the blood coagulation cascade namely factor VIII (FVIII) and factor IX (FIX). On the basis of the different blood coagulatio...
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