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News and Trends 27 Jan 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 31: Orgenesis, Phacilitate, Terumo, University of Birmingham, VIVEBiotech

Phacilitate’s Advanced Therapies Week took place last week in Miami Beach, Florida. This week, we speak with the organizers, as well as some of the companies in attendance. Our guests are Kim Barnes, EVP, Phacilitate; Kathie Schneider, director and global commercial lead at Terumo; Vered Caplan, CEO, Orgenesis; Ivan Wall, head of the Centre for […]

January 27, 2023

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Orbsen Therapeutics happy with interim diabetic kidney disease study results

Orbsen Therapeutics Limited has announced what it says are encouraging headline interim results from the EU Horizon 2020-funded NEPHSTROM clinical trial for diabetic kidney disease. NEPHSTROM is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1/2a, trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of an off-the-shelf allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell immunotherapy, ORBCEL, in adult study […]

January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

First leukemia patient dosed with SMART101

Smart Immune has announced that the first adult leukemia patient has been dosed with SMART101, a T-cell progenitor cell injection derived from donor stem cells using ProTcell at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center (MSK). The phaseI/II trial is a multicenter, open-label, first-in-human study expected to enroll up to 36 adult and pediatric patients with hematological malignancies, […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 20 Jan 2023

The future of single-cell microfluidics in cell engineering

By Richard Hammond, chief technical officer at Sphere Fluidics Single-cell microfluidic-based techniques continue to be a key enabling technology for cell engineering as they allow true single-cell level working, with the associated precision of measurement and control of environment, and a high level of automation, enabling the speed and scale necessary to process and search […]

January 20, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

In Depth 17 Jan 2023

Cell and gene therapies gain momentum in Basel

Companies specializing in the research and development of innovative cell and gene therapies continue to spring up all around the globe, and a growing number are choosing the Swiss city of Basel as their base. These companies are taking advantage of the talent pool, academic institutions and investors that the area has to offer, culturing […]

January 17, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 17 Jan 2023

TTP spinout Cellular Origins to focus on cell and gene therapies

TTP plc, a technology and product development company, has announced the launch of Cellular Origins. Cellular Origins is a TTP spin-out, created to enable scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Cellular Origins’ proprietary technology addresses the current barriers associated with the manufacture of advanced therapies that are in late-stage development, enabling […]

January 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Navigating cell and gene therapy manufacturing with a long-term partnership

Cell and gene therapies have proven to be promising treatments for cancers and genetic diseases, but developers face key challenges before these treatments reach patients’ bedsides. A long-term partnership with a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) can ease the path life science companies travel from manufacturing these life-changing treatments and bringing them to the […]

January 17, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 9 Jan 2023

Cartherics granted first patent in China

Cartherics Pty Ltd, a biotechnology company developing immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer, has been granted a Chinese patent, “Genetically modified cells and uses thereof.” The patent provides a proprietary position for multiple development candidates in Cartherics’ pipeline. Specifically, it covers Cartherics’ chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting tumor-associated glycoprotein-72 (TAG-72), along with T […]

January 9, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Jan 2023

Ensoma acquiring Twelve Bio

Arix Bioscience, a global venture capital company focused on investing in breakthrough biotechnology companies, announced that portfolio company Twelve Bio will be acquired by Ensoma in connection with an $85 million financing of Ensoma which Arix co-led, investing $9 million. Twelve Bio is a gene editing company pioneering the therapeutic application of next-generation CRISPR-Cas medicines. […]

January 6, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Jan 2023

2023 Editorial Calendar updated

Each month here at Labiotech.eu, we produce a special newsletter. While still news-related, these special editions are an opportunity to take a deeper look at topics of interest. It also allows us to focus on some of the special awareness days – of which there are many – associated with health and the life sciences. […]

January 5, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Dec 2022

Ori Biotech and Inceptor Bio partner on solid tumor cell therapy

Cell and gene therapy (CGT) company Ori Biotech, and cell therapy firm Inceptor Bio have announced a new partnership. The deal will utilize Ori Biotech’s manufacturing platform technology to support initial process development through scale-up for manufacturing of Inceptor’s novel CAR-M, CAR-T and CAR-NK programs. Inceptor Bio is the third partner to join Ori’s LightSpeed […]

December 20, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Dec 2022

LIfT BioSciences gets a double boost

LIfT BioSciences’ is receiving more investment, and has been accepted into Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s JLABS network. LIfT BioSciences’ lead investor, Starbloom Capital, provided further investment into the company to accelerate LIfT’s R&D plans and progress N-LIfT, the company’s first-to-market anti-cancer innate cell therapy, (neutrophil only leukocyte infusion therapy) into clinical development by Q1 2024, […]

December 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Beyond Biotech podcast 31: Orgenesis, Phacilitate, Terumo, University of Birmingham, VIVEBiotech

Orbsen Therapeutics happy with interim diabetic kidney disease study results

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Cell and gene therapies gain momentum in Basel

TTP spinout Cellular Origins to focus on cell and gene therapies

Navigating cell and gene therapy manufacturing with a long-term partnership

Cartherics granted first patent in China

Ensoma acquiring Twelve Bio

2023 Editorial Calendar updated

Ori Biotech and Inceptor Bio partner on solid tumor cell therapy

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