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News and Trends 1 Jun 2015

DNA Therapeutics presents positive results for its breakthrough Advanced Cancer Therapy

ASCO Annual Meeting keeps bringing positive results of European companies that cross the ocean to present their clinical trial outcomes. DNA Therapeutics, the French biopharma, presented the results of the first-in-man phase I/IIa trial of DT01 in patients with cutaneous metastatic melanoma. Cancer cells can easily repair themselves after damage incurred in their DNA from […]

June 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 14 May 2015

Selecta continues its tour around France with another collaboration

Selecta Biosciences and Généthon are collaborating to enable repeat dosing for gene therapies. The companies are combining Généthon’s expertise in the development of gene therapy vectors and Selecta’s Synthetic Vaccine Particle platform to prevent undesired immune responses. Selecta seems quite fond of collaborating with French companies. After allying with Sanofi, the US-based company has announced […]

May 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 8 May 2015

GSK sparks off the Gene Therapy resurgence

GlaxoSmithKline has become the first big pharma company to file a gene therapy approval case to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The therapy, developed in collaboration with San Raffaele Hospital and the Telethon Foundation in Italy, is designed to cure a disease called adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency, which causes severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome, lead to serious infections and, ultimately, death. ADA […]

May 8, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 10 Mar 2015

Live from Bio-Europe 2015: The product development challenges in the gene therapy field

Gene Therapy is really the hot topic right now in the field of Biotech especially with technologies such as CRISPR and CAR-T therapies. The value of such companies are skyrocketing and many see the field as the next potential blockbuster therapies. Gene therapy has clearly a huge potential but also lot of challenges, let’s go through […]

March 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 5 Mar 2015

Synpromics and UniQure, new Collaboration in Gene Therapy.

Synpromics has formed a collaboration with uniQure, the Dutch pioneer in human gene therapy, to develop synthetic promoters with specific application in the delivery of gene therapies to liver. Synpromics, a leading synthetic biology company, will use its unique approach to develop synthetic promoters with upregulated, liver cell specific, activity whilst also decreasing the promoter molecular […]

March 5, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 22 Feb 2015

Theravectys: an Orphan Drug Designation for Its Lentiviral Vector-Based Therapeutic Vaccine

THERAVECTYS, a fully-integrated discovery and clinical development biotechnology company focusing on the development of therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapy, announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to its therapeutic vaccine candidate for the treatment of Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATL/L). ATL/L is a rare malignancy of a certain type of white cells, T-Lymphocytes, caused by the Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus type […]

February 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 1 Dec 2014

The First Gene Therapy Drug Will Be Sold at Record €1,1M Price

What could you buy with €1,1M euros? A house? Or a single prescription for a new drug… The first gene therapy drug “Glybera” is set to go on sale in Germany with a €1.1 million price tag, a new record for a medicine to treat a rare disease. And this drug from UniQure is not the only one […]

December 1, 2014 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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DNA Therapeutics presents positive results for its breakthrough Advanced Cancer Therapy

Selecta continues its tour around France with another collaboration

GSK sparks off the Gene Therapy resurgence

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Synpromics and UniQure, new Collaboration in Gene Therapy.

Theravectys: an Orphan Drug Designation for Its Lentiviral Vector-Based Therapeutic Vaccine

The First Gene Therapy Drug Will Be Sold at Record €1,1M Price

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