In one of the largest cell and gene therapy funding rounds this year, the US company Arsenal Biosciences has secured $325 million in a Series C round to bankroll T cell therapies engineered to take on solid tumors.
As Orgenesis works to decentralize and democratize CAR-T therapies, its candidate therapy has shown complete response rates of more than 80% in a clinical study in China.
An international collaboration led by Hilleman Laboratories has confirmed the launch of a new oral cholera vaccine called HILLCHOL, hoping to address significant global shortages.
Just months after facing a rejection in the US, the bispecific antibody odronextamab (Ordspono) has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of two types of blood cancer in patients that have failed to respond to previous treatments.
Microbiotica has received the green light from EU and UK regulatory authorities to start phase 1b studies for its microbiome medicines in advanced melanoma and ulcerative colitis.
Eisai and Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s treatment, lecanemab, received a green light from UK regulators, marking a significant advance in treating early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
As antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) continue to heat up in the industry, Adcendo of Denmark has gained the global rights from Multitude Therapeutics to develop the Chinese company’s ADC for the treatment of cancer outside of the Greater China region.
In a promising advancement, scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Emory University have developed a novel drug delivery system using synthetic amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides.
In a groundbreaking development, a team of biochemical engineers from South Korea has unveiled a new exosome-based delivery system, termed MAPLEX, that holds the potential to transform treatments for various diseases, including Alzheimer’s.
A team of scientists from the universities of Glasgow and Tel Aviv has developed a groundbreaking method to transform the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii into a potential vehicle for delivering therapeutic treatments directly to brain cells.
In a significant leap forward for therapeutic science, researchers at Cornell University have developed a pioneering method to 'cloak' proteins, enabling their efficient delivery into living cells.
The Danish company Bavarian Nordic plans to supply up to 2 million vaccine doses this year in response to the World Health Organization’s declaration of mpox as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) earlier this month.
The US FDA has granted approval to Niktimvo for the treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease, a serious immune condition affecting the recipients of stem cell transplants.
Two months after placing a partial hold on a phase 1 clinical trial evaluating an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) in cancer patients, the FDA is allowing the study to proceed with the lower doses of the treatment.
Acelyrin will shift away from lead candidate and cut its workforce, despite izokibep’s encouraging phase 3 results in psoriatic arthritis and hidradenitis suppurativa
The investment round will fund the first clinical trials for an innovative therapeutic modality designed to overcome drug resistance in patients with solid tumors.
The US approval of Nemluvio marks a major milestone for Galderma, a Swiss company developing treatments for a wide range of conditions affecting the skin.
The FDA has given the green light to Lymphir, the first immunotherapy for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) to get approval in over five years.
The agreement will give Genentech access to Sangamo’s capsid delivery platform and epigenetic regulation technology with applications in neurodegenerative disease.
With the FDA’s endorsement, Amgen and AstraZeneca are getting closer to adding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a new indication to Tezspire.
In a significant move set to reshape the landscape of drug discovery, NovAliX, a leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug development, has entered a strategic partnership with Bruker, a global leader in scientific instruments.
Experience with severe mental health disorders in close friends and family gave Sam Clark the drive to found Terran Biosciences to explore new approaches to therapeutics in neuropsychiatry.
The FDA has granted accelerated approval to Adaptimmune’s Tecelra, a T cell therapy for the treatment of synovial sarcoma when other lines of treatment do not work.
Pfizer will let go of 150 employees at its Sanford, US site that were involved in the development of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that recently failed in a phase 3 clinical trial.
The Bateman Horne Center of Excellence (BHC) has established itself as a trusted leader in the clinical care, provider education, patient advocacy, and research of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID.
BeiGene, a global oncology company, has announced the opening of its flagship US facility, which will expand the company’s biologics manufacturing capabilities and clinical research and development activities.
A committee from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has voted against granting Leqembi (lecanemab) a marketing authorization due to the risk of serious side effects associated with the treatment.
As advanced therapies drive increasing market consolidation, the US giant Agilent Technologies has acquired the Canadian contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) BIOVECTRA for $925 million.
When she was young, Suzanne used to love hearing her father, a cardiologist, talking to his colleagues on the phone about patients and the care they needed.
Data integrity is a paramount concern for pharmaceutical manufacturers, particularly as they navigate the complexities of modern production with legacy equipment.
The fundraising will support the development of the company’s technology platform for silencing RNA (siRNA), which has the potential to enable dosing patients every six months to treat a wide range of conditions.
The contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) arm of the Israeli company Pluri will deploy automated and 3D cell expansion technology to produce cell therapies developed by compatriot firm Kadimastem.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals antisense therapy for Angelman syndrome achieved good early safety and efficacy results and the company now plans to advance the therapy to phase 3.