Catch up on the latest news, breakthroughs, and announcements from biotechnology companies making advancements in cell and gene therapies.
The cell and gene therapy sectors are growing exponentially, with new players emerging daily and much progress being made both in and out of the lab. CGTLive’s Around the Helix is your chance to catch up with the latest news in cell and gene therapies, including partnerships, pipeline updates, and more.
Kite’s brexucabtagene autoleucel (KTE-X19; Tecartus), a CD19-directed autologous chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, has been granted a European Marketing Authorization (EMA) by the European Commission (EC) for the treatment of patients aged 26 years and older with relapsed or refractory (r/r) B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Beam Therapeutics has revealaed the FDA's request for additional preclinical data on BEAM-201, a CAR T-cell therapy for the treatment of relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL)/T cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LL).
REGENXBIO’s RGX-121, an investigational gene therapy intended for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis Type 2 (MPS II; Hunter syndrome), has demonstrated promising safety and efficacy in interim data from the phase 1/2/3 CAMPSIITE trial (NCT03566043).
Longeveron has received an intent-to-grant notice from the European Patent Office for its methods of using vascular biomarkers to monitor the efficacy of its Lomecel-B cell therapy. Lomecel-B is being investigated in several indications, including hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), for which the FDA has also just granted fast track designation.
Following a prespecified data review of the ongoing phase 3 clinical trial (NCT02438306) of BioCardia’s CardiAMP cell therapy, an investigational autologous cell therapy for the treatment of heart failure, an independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has given a positive review and recommendation to continue.
Regen Biopharma is developing a novel immunotherapy approach using CAR natural killer (NK), macrophage (M), and T cells (T) for treating solid tumors.
The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to Intellia Therapeutics’ investigational CRISPR therapy for treating hereditary angioedema (HAE), NTLA-2002.
The first patient has been treated in the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) phase 1/2a clinical trial (NCT04339764) of an autologous induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) therapy for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
The FDA has cleared an investigational new drug application (IND) for Immusoft’s ISP-001, an investigational engineered autologous B-cell therapy intended for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I), allowing the company to initiate a phase 1 clinical trial.
An allogeneic human neural progenitor cell therapy transduced with glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and differentiated to astrocyte cells, termed CNS10-NPC-GDNF, was found to be well-tolerated and produced GDNF in participants with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a phase 1/2a study (NCT02943850).
Charles River Laboratories will manufacture High Quality plasmid DNA to be used in Cure AP-4’s phase 1/2 clinical trial of a gene therapy intended for the treatment of Adapter-Protein 4 Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (AP-4 HSP).
The company expects that the financing will help expand its research activities and grow its pipeline, which currently includes lead program AB-1015, a candidate for the treatment of ovarian cancer, and candidates for kidney cancer and prostate cancer, among other indications.
The patent is expected to be issued by the end of the first quarter of next year and it will provide protection though at least the end of 2036.
The facility, located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has a gross floor area of approximately 3,300 square meters is expected to be capable of producing CAR-T cell therapy products for approximately 700 patients each year.
Bendamustine Is an Effective Alternative to Fludarabine-Based Lymphodepletion in LBCL
December 7th 2024In the wake of fludarabine shortages, lemphodepletion with bendamustine was found to be an effective alternative compared for patients with large B-cell lymphoma being treated with a CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy.