Penn spinout, Verismo Therapeutics, says the FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to its KIR-CAR T-cell immunotherapy drug, SynKIR-110, for the treatment of patients with mesothelin-expressing mesotheliomas.
The diagnostics and drug development company, Labcorp, is partnering with San Francisco based, Xcell Biosciences, to advance efforts to help clients bring cell and gene therapies to market.
A study that reveals new understanding of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell functionality is said to underscore the critical role that cell avidity or binding plays in uncovering and optimizing CAR T cells.
Novartis continues down the third-party manufacturing route, as it secures an agreement with Carisma Therapeutics, a firm developing a cell therapy platform focused on engineered macrophage-based therapeutics.
Biomunex Pharmaceuticals, a French company focused on the discovery and development of bi- and multi-specific antibodies, sees its BiXAb5 project receive nearly €3m (US$3.5m) in the form of a grant from the French government.
Iksuda Therapeutics, a developer of a new generation of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), has expanded its research collaboration and license agreement with LegoChem Biosciences Inc (LCB).
British-Swedish pharma giant, AstraZeneca, has disclosed key preclinical data for AZD5305, its next-generation PARP1 selective inhibitor at the virtual American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) meeting this week.
Seekyo, a startup biotechnology company specializing in the development of ‘smart chemotherapy’ drugs that limit harmful side effects, has raised in excess of €650,000 (US$775K) in bridge funding.
From new research offering promise for children's cancer to FDA registrations, we track the progress made in the past few weeks in terms of advancing CAR T-cell therapy in a number of markets.
A new study suggests that CAR T-cells, which are already used to treat certain blood cancers, may also be successful against solid tumors if combined with other immunotherapeutic approaches.
Agenus Inc, an immuno-oncology company with a pipeline of agents designed to activate immune response to cancers and infectious diseases, has reported the dosing of the first COVID-19 patient with agenT-797, an allogeneic cell therapy, through its subsidiary,...
ICT is developing upon CAR-T cell technology to enable T-cells to persist against cancer’s attempt to program death into a patient’s defensive T-cells, which could potentially treat solid tumors.
