London investment fund Syncona will acquire retinal gene therapy company Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC): with AGTC noting it had been facing ‘significant challenges’ in funding operations beyond 2022.
Millipore Sigma has launched its VirusExpress 293 Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Production Platform: meaning the CDMO can now provide a full viral vector manufacturing offering including AAV, Lentiviral, CDMO, CTO, and process development.
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) have announced a collaboration to accelerate clinical development of adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapies for dementia.
PerkinElmer’s Sirion Biotech business is teaming up with the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CGR) to jointly develop new generation adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for type 1 and type 2 diabetes gene therapy in the pancreas.
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) hold potential for use in numerous gene therapies: with demand only set to grow as more therapies are developed and approved. However, supply of AAV is one of the challenges for the sector. In a study published in Biotechnology...
The number of advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP) clinical trials in the UK continues to increase year on year with 154 ongoing trials observed in 2020, demonstrating the appeal of that market for the clinical development of ATMPs, shows a new report.
