Company files its first Investigational New Drug application for its lead program KYV-101, a novel fully human CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, for the treatment of lupus nephritis. Kyverna’s therapeutic platform combines advanced T-cell engineering and synthetic biology technologies to suppress and eliminate...
Twice a year, the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) surveys the cell and gene therapy landscape and ARM’s initiatives to advance the sector and provide an update to their members, their stakeholders, and the public at large. While external conditions ebb and flow, the sector’s progress — in clinical milestones, regulatory developments, and patient impact — steadily advances...
Century Therapeutics, an innovative biotechnology company developing induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cell therapies in immuno-oncology, announced today that the company has been notified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the Company’s ELiPSE-1 clinical study may proceed to assess CNTY-101 in patients with relapsed or refractory CD19 positive B-cell malignancies. CNTY-101 is [...]
bluebird bio has announced the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ZYNTEGLO® (betibeglogene autotemcel), also known as beti-cel, a one-time gene therapy custom-designed to treat the underlying genetic cause of beta‑thalassemia in adult and pediatric patients who require regular red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. “The FDA approval of ZYNTEGLO offers people with [...]
Effort to address challenges to the manufacturing scale-up of cell-based therapies follows release of Project A-Gene for gene therapy in 2021 The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) and the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing BioPharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) today released Project A-Cell, a multistakeholder collaboration to incorporate Quality by Design (QbD) principles into a manufacturing case [...]
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have developed a method that may be able to improve CAR T-cell therapies by identifying the early cells that become effective at killing cancer. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have demonstrated that the long-term performance of cancer-killing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells can, in some cases, be predicted [...]
Graphite Bio is a clinical-stage, next-generation gene editing company harnessing the power of high-efficiency precision gene repair to develop therapies with the potential to treat or cure serious diseases. The FDA has just granted Fast Track Designation to GPH101 for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). GPH101 is an investigational next-generation gene-edited autologous [...]
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) regulates cellular therapy products, human gene therapy products, and certain devices related to cell and gene therapy. CBER uses both the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act as enabling statutes for oversight. Cellular therapy products include cellular immunotherapies, cancer vaccines, [...]
