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Lonza has signed a long-term commercial supply agreement with Vertex Pharmaceuticals for Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel). 25 September 2024
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A late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of first-in-class critical care products, with a focus on oncology, anti-infectives in adjunct cancer care, unique prescription products, and stem cell therapies.
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Intellia Therapeutics has announced Phase II results for its CRISPR-based therapy, NTLA-2002, aimed at providing a one-time treatment for hereditary angioedema (HAE). 25 October 2024
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US artificial intelligence (AI) to gene therapy focussed biotech Dyno Therapeutics today announced its second research collaboration with Roche to develop next-generation adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for gene therapies targeting neurological diseases. 24 October 2024
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Ocuphire Pharma has announced its acquisition of Opus Genetics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on treating inherited retinal diseases. 24 October 2024
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Editas Medicine has announced plans to seek a partner or buyer for its lead CRISPR program, reni-cel, as the company continues to shift its strategy. 23 October 2024
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Shares in Sangamo Therapeutics surged around 40% on Tuesday, following the announcement that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted the company a faster path to approval for its gene therapy ST-920 (isaralgagene civaparvovec) for Fabry disease. 23 October 2024
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OmniaBio, a subsidiary of Canada's Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine, has announced the opening of its new cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing site. 18 October 2024
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Taiwan-based REGiMMUNE, a biopharma creating immunotherapies through the power of regulatory T cells (Tregs), and France-based Kiji Therapeutics, a specialist in induced pluripotent stem cells-mesenchymal stem cells (IPSC-MSC) engineered cell therapies for inflammatory diseases, are to merge. 18 October 2024
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UK-based Cellular Origins and Fresenius Kabi—an operating company of Germany’s Fresenius—have signed a development agreement to combine their expertise in cell and gene therapies (CGTs). 16 October 2024
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Where once the state of play in the cell and gene therapy space was mostly limited to hope and hype around what might be to come, this is increasingly being replaced by action, on-market therapies and genuine expectation of reaching patients—provided companies can avoid some of the sector’s notorious pitfalls. 16 October 2024
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In Cambridge, UK, the protein specialist Nuclera has raised $75 million in a funding round led by Elevage Medical Technologies and backed by Patient Square Capital. 16 October 2024
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Boston-based biotech firm Ginkgo Bioworks has announced significant workforce reductions as part of its ongoing restructuring efforts. 28 June 2024
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Last week Vertex Pharmaceuticals released positive Phase III results for its suzetrigine for moderate-to-severed pain. Belgium’s UCB revealed that Swiss pharma giant Roche was terminating its collaboration on the Alzheimer’s candidate bepranemab. The UK’s health technology assessor the Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) declined to recommend a second Alzheimer’s treatment, this time Eli Lilly’s Kisunla. Also of note, Lyell Immunopharma announced its planned acquisition of ImmPACT Bio and reprioritization of its own clinical pipeline. 27 October 2024
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