The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Provention Bio’s Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) to delay the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes: with the American Diabetes Association welcoming it as a 'tremendous accomplishment'.
CRISPR Therapeutics and ViaCyte, Inc. have received the green light from Health Canada for their Clinical Trial Application for VCTX210: an allogeneic, gene-edited, immune-evasive, stem cell-derived therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D)....
Vertex is set to acquire Semma, which is developing a stem cell curative treatment for type 1 diabetes and expects the deal to ‘rapidly advance’ its potential therapy.