Hematology

The companies plan to evaluate the combination therapy in patients with HL in the phase 2 LuminICE-203 clinical trial.

The FDA has accepted the company’s plan to address its current IND clinical hold on HEMO-CAR-T.

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Patients were newly diagnosed and had acute myeloid leukemia positive for FLT3-iTD mutations.

A final analysis of data from CARTITUDE-1 was also presented at SOHO 2023, which revealed a PFS of 24.9 months in treated patients.

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Beam Therapeutics also expects to announce initial data from its BEACON trial in sickle cell in 2024.

Zilebesiran is being evaluated as a monotherapy in the KARDIA-1 study and as a combination therapy in KARDIA-2, which will report topline data in early 2024.

The CAR T-cell therapy, marketed as Yikaida in China, has been approved for second-line treatment for patients with refractory/relapsed large B-cell lymphoma.

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In a small sample of patients, the CRISPR–Cas9–edited CD34+ hematopoietic stem- and progenitor-cell therapy showed expected safety while inducing red cell fetal hemoglobin.

In recent data from the phase 3 VITAL trial, EB-101 decreased pain and improved wound healing.

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The FDA’s decision was based on data from the randomized, open-label phase 3 COMMANDS clinical trial.

The company also recently entered into a collaboration with Roche and was invested in by Astellas.

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Because of the lack of neurotoxicity seen in patients treated thus far, Nexcella believes NXC-201 may have potential to serve as an outpatient treatment.

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The company also reported that WU-NK-101 has received orphan drug designation for treating acute myeloid leukemia from the FDA.

Surveyed clinicians and nurses from Rady Children's Hospital San Diego identified important factors and considerations needed in a potential SMD tool.

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Bluebird's gene-edited cell therapy has a PDUFA date of December 20, 2023.

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Mustang reported new data and responses from a multicenter phase 1 trial evaluating its CAR T-cell therapy in patients with NHL, FL, and WM.

The partial clinical hold was originally placed in June 2023 in relation to the death of a patient participating in the trial.

The formal hold comes approximately 2 months after Seattle Children’s paused the trial in accordance with the clinical study protocol stopping rules.

The assistant member in the Department of Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center spoke about A2B530's mechanism of action and how it could represent a leap forward in the application of CAR T-cell agents for patients with solid tumors.

KMA.CAR-T is directed at Kappa Myeloma Antigen, a receptor exclusively appearing on myeloma cells in kappa-type MM.

The phase 2 ALPHA2 trial of ALLO-501A should complete enrollment in 2024.