Sarepta

Aug 20, 2019

Juvenescence closes a USD 100 Million Series B round Juvenescence, a life sciences company focused on treating ageing problems, has successfully raised USD 100 Million in a Series B round. The investors who took part in the funding were Grok Ventures, the investment company of Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian co-...

Feb 28, 2019

Cell Medica receives funds for its cell therapy A USD 8.7 million grant to Cell Medica has been given by Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to speed up the clinical development of CMD-502 off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor-natural killer T cell (CAR-NKT) cell therapy. The program, su...

Aug 10, 2018

Sarepta builds in gene therapy with $30M Lacerta deal Sarepta has dampen its enthusiasm for an ongoing gene therapy candidate. Sarepta has made a tie-up with lacerta that will add 3 more programs to 8 already existing and are ready to expand its focus beyond muscular dystrophy. Sarepta has committed to pay Lacerta ...

Oct 24, 2016

Before approving an investigational drug, safety and effectivity needs to be proven. Something different happened with Sarepta’s Muscular dystrophy drug Eteplirsen, as its luck changed completely when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on 19th September 2016 approved Sarepta Therapeutics' Exondys 51 (eteplirsen) ...