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News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Sarepta looks for quick approval for Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy treatment

U.S. company Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. said it intends to submit a Biologics License Application (BLA) seeking accelerated approval for SRP-9001 (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) to treat ambulant individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. SRP-9001 is an investigational gene therapy for Duchenne being developed in partnership with Roche. “We are delighted to confirm that based on the feedback we […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Biotech startup Novasenta raises $40M to advance novel cancer therapeutics

Novasenta Inc., a U.S. startup biotech company focused on the discovery and validation of novel targets to develop cancer therapies, has completed $40 million in Series A financing. The round was led by UPMC Enterprises. The funding will allow Novasenta to advance its pipeline of antibody-based therapeutics and expand its computational platforms for target discovery, […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Commercial personalized cancer cell profile developed in Taiwan

Patients with stage 2 solid tumors could benefit from the world’s first commercial personalized cancer cell profiling, developed in Taiwan. Taipei-based CancerFree Biotech Ltd has developed the technology that will help stage 2 patients and above by shortening the selection process. The technology will be showcasing at US Bio 2022. This is the world’s first […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 7: World Hepatitis Day

This week’s podcast features three interviews related to hepatitis. Our guests are Ahmed Elsharkawy, consultant transplant hepatologist and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the UK; Ziv Ben-Ari, director of the Liver Diseases Center at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel, and James McIlroy, chief executive officer at EnteroBiotix. World Hepatitis […]

July 29, 2022

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

AGC Biologics announces gene therapy partnership with Altheia Science

A new development partnership between gene therapy company Altheia Sciences, which pioneers cell and gene treatments, and AGC Biologics, will look at strategies to treat autoimmune disease and cancer. Specifically, the partnership will help advance development of autoimmunity treatments, focused on modulating PD-L1 expression in patients’ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, into clinical testing. PD-L1 […]

July 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Mission Bio launches new cancer assay

Life sciences company Mission Bio, Inc. has announced the availability of the industry’s first assay capable of determining measurable residual disease (MRD) in cancer down to the level of individual cells. Mission Bio said this heralds a new era for the understanding of disease progression. The single-cell multi-omics MRD (scMRD) assay for acute myeloid leukemia […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Biogen’s New Drug Application for first treatment of rare form of neurological disease accepted by FDA

A drug to target a rare genetic form of a neurological disease that affects the nerve cells, leading to the loss of everyday functions, could be the first of its kind available if approved. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a New Drug Application (NDA) from Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. for tofersen, an […]

July 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Step Pharma moves into oncology clinical trials

Step Pharma, which works on CTPS1 inhibition for the targeted treatment of cancer, has announced its lead asset STP938 has cleared both an Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and a clinical trial application (CTA) by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). This means Step Pharma […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Kelun-Biotech announces joint license agreement with MSD for drug targeting solid tumors

Kelun-Biotech and MSD (Merck & Co.) have announced they are entering in a joint license agreement to develop a drug to treat solid tumors. The announcement was made yesterday (July 27) for the partnership to create the investigational antibody drug conjugate (ADC). Under the terms of the agreement, Kelun-Biotech, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

First of a kind multiple sclerosis biosimilar natalizumab accepted by US Food and Drug Association

Sandoz, a global pharmaceutical company working in generic and biosimilar medicines, announced this week that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its biologics application (BLA) for treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The application is for a biosimilar natalizumab developed by Polpharma Biologics and includes all indications covered by the reference […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Commercial launch of Monkeypox PCR test announced for research

A PCR test to pick up the monkeypox virus is now available outside the US for use in research applications by laboratories. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) a global medical technology company and CerTesy Biotec made the announcement today (July 27). The BD MAX System used to leverage the test is a fully integrated, automated […]

July 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 27 Jul 2022

AbbVie seeks nod from FDA and EMA for Crohn’s disease drug

U.S. biopharma company AbbVie has submitted applications for a new indication to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) for upadacitinib (RINVOQ) for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease. “Crohn’s disease can be debilitating and have a significant impact on a person’s daily life,” […]

July 27, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Sarepta looks for quick approval for Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy treatment

Biotech startup Novasenta raises $40M to advance novel cancer therapeutics

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Beyond Biotech podcast 7: World Hepatitis Day

AGC Biologics announces gene therapy partnership with Altheia Science

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