Today, just two in ten patients have access to CAR-T therapy in the US. Considering this challenging landscape, the shift has focused from academic centers to community clinics, as they may be able to serve more patients.
Dr. Claudia Zylberberg is a scientist and founder, board member and former CEO of Akron Biotech, a company that makes materials and technologies to support advanced therapy development. We spoke to her about her career, personal triumphs and candidacy...
Within the current treatments of Parkinson’s disease (PD) there is an unmet need for addressing the loss of dopaminergic neurons and non-motor symptoms.
Austian start-up Sarcura has secured a €1.7 million grant to help the company develop a ‘miniaturized and autonomous’ cell therapy manufacturing platform using deep tech.
OneChain Immunotherapeutics has received €1.9m from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to advance a ‘groundbreaking’ CAR-T therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia type T into clinical development.
The Committee of Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended Janssen’s CARVYKTI (cilta-cel) for the earlier treatment of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM).
Stella Vnook, a seasoned veteran in the pharmaceutical industry with extensive experience in senior leadership roles at Catalent, Merck, and Diverse Biotech, has been a prominent figure in the field, particularly in oncology, for over 25 years.
A collaboration to expand autologous CAR-T programs into trials for multiple cancers in a cost-efficient way, has been formed by BioNTech SE and Autolus Therapeutics plc.
Cartherics, a biotechnology company developing immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer, has completed a pre-investigational new drug (pre-IND) meeting with the FDA for a phase 1/2 clinical trial of its cell therapy product, CTH-401 for the treatment...
Upon hearing the phrase ‘cancer treatment’, the first word that can typically spring to mind is chemotherapy – a primary therapy which uses powerful chemicals to destroy rapidly growing cancer cells in the body.
We sat down with Xiaojun Liu, director of AAV process development at ReciBioPharm, to discuss the growing need for carefully designed platforms to deliver safe and cost-effective AAV therapies to patients at pace.
Healthcare industry professionals scored cell and gene therapy (CGT) as the industry trend to have the greatest impact on the pharmaceutical industry in 2024, in a recent survey launched by data and analytics firm GlobalData.
Biosenic, a company specializing in serious autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and cell therapy, has secured funding from Singapore-based TrialCap, in a bid to accelerate its phase 3 clinical development.
As it extends its cash runway, the cell therapy developer Atara Biotherapeutics has expanded a partnership with Pierre Fabre Laboratories to commercialize the off-the-shelf T-cell therapy tabelecleucel (tab-cel) for a rare form of blood cancer.
Triumvira Immunologics, a Texas-based clinical-stage company developing T cell therapeutics to treat patients with solid tumors, has announced that the first patient has been dosed in its phase 2 trial to treat gastric cancer.
Biosenic, the clinical-stage company specializing in serious autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and cell therapy, has reached an agreement with Global Tech Opportunities 15 (GTO15) to finalise its existing convertible bonds program.
Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, a medical tech company, and BioCentriq, a cell therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), are working together to demonstrate the capabilities of Terumo’s automated cell and gene therapy platforms...
CellProthera is moving forward with its cell therapy which regenerates damaged tissue following a severe heart attack, restoring cardiac function and effectively mending a broken heart.
At Advanced Therapies Europe 2023, BioPharma Reporter caught up with ScaleReady's Jenny Stjernberg to discuss her work at the biotech company, her journey from academia to commercial and female representation in the cell and gene therapies industry....
Synthego, a leading provider of industrialized genome editing solutions, and bit.bio, the company coding human cells for novel cures, have expanded their partnership to build a platform centered on the implementation of synthetic circuitry in cells for...
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Rentschler Biopharma, and Refeyn have announced a new partnership to develop and apply ‘innovative’ process analytical technologies (PAT) to improve the process and efficiency of AAV manufacture.
With so many advanced therapies on the horizon, the next few years are poised to be one of significant progress for patients with over 2000 cell and gene therapies in active clinical trials globally.
BlueRock Therapeutics, a clinical stage cell therapy company, and bit.bio, the company coding human cells for novel cures, have announced a collaboration and option agreement for the discovery and manufacture of iPSC-derived regulatory T cells (Tregs)...
NK:IO, a leader in natural killer (NK) cell biology applied to the development of potent, off-the-shelf cell therapies targeting solid tumors, has raised £1.2m.
SCTbio, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in cell-based therapy and viral vectors, has partnered with cell and regenerative medicine specialist Cyto-care.
Syncona has launched Beacon Therapeutics, a new ophthalmic gene therapy company with a purpose to restore and improve the vision of patients with retinal diseases, with £96 million Series A financing.
Janssen Biotech has entered into a worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Cellular Biomedicine Group to develop, manufacture and commercialize next-generation chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for the treatment of B-cell malignancies....
Bristol Myers Squibb will boost its cell therapy manufacturing network with in-house viral vector production thanks to the acquisition of Novartis’ Libertyville, Illinois facility.
Aspect Biosystems and Novo Nordisk have announced a collaboration, development, and licence agreement to develop bioprinted tissue therapeutics to replace or repair biological functions in the body: with the aim of creating a ‘new class of truly disease-modifying...
The clinical stage company announces that its potential treatment for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma receives nod for speedier review by the FDA.
A T-cell engaging bispecific antibody developed by Roche has got its first green light in Canada for the treatment of relapsed or refractory forms of the blood cancer diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
California based, Theragent, a cell therapy CDMO, has signed a multi-year exclusive contract with Insight68, an AI-driven software provider that aims to digitalize and streamline the cell therapy manufacturing process.
New company Syena says it has the potential to create the next generation of cell therapy: combining the safety, potency and scalability of natural killer (NK) cells with the ability of T cell receptors (TCR) to target intracellular tumor antigens.
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) has confirmed its involvement in the development of a new £900m ($1,097m) life science campus in Stevenage, UK: which is set to become one of the largest in Europe.
Merck has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Synplogen, a startup spun out of Kobe University's Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Emmes has announced the creation of a dedicated center for cell and gene therapy research: which will focus on supporting clinical trials for the Clinical Research Organization’s (CRO) clients.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will provide up to five selected advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) with enhanced regulatory support - and in the process hopes to learn how to improve the regulatory processes for other ATMP drugs in the future.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Kite’s retroviral vector (RVV) manufacturing facility in Oceanside, California, for commercial production.
