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Interview 31 Aug 2022

How CDMOs keep pace with trends in advanced therapies

Advanced therapies including cell and gene therapies are exploding in demand, but the manufacturing process can be difficult. Jean-Christophe Hyvert, president of biologics and cell & gene at the CDMO Lonza, sheds light on the latest trends in advanced therapies and how manufacturers are keeping up. In 2021, global funding going to cell and gene […]

August 31, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 31 Aug 2022

Laverock Therapeutics created to develop next generation of programmable cell therapies

Laverock Therapeutics Ltd has been founded to develop a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies. Having recently completed a seed funding round, the U.K. company has opened dedicated labs in the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, employing six new team members on top of its senior management team. Laverock Therapeutics started out […]

August 31, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 25 Aug 2022

Zelluna Immunotherapy announces investment from Takeda Ventures, Inc.

Zelluna Immunotherapy, a company focused on allogenic T-cell Receptor Natural Killer (TCR-NK) cells to treat cancer has today (August 25) announced an investment from Takeda Ventures, Inc. (TVI), the strategic arm of Takeda. TVI investment joins Zelluna’s latest financing round. The funds will enable the advancement of a lead TCR-NK product through manufacturing to Clinical […]

August 25, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 24 Aug 2022

Gene therapies for lung cancer identified by international team of scientists

Gene therapies for lung cancer can be found by CRISPR genome editing technology, an international team of scientists have discovered. CRISPR genome-editing is a powerful tool that gives scientists a cheap and easy way to find and alter a specific piece of DNA within a cell – the ‘cut and paste’ of the biological world. […]

August 24, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 10 Aug 2022

Stem cell therapy to be used in treatment of long COVID by Panacell Biotech

A South Korean biotech company says it will use natural killer (NK) cells, exosomes and brown adipose-derived stem cells (ADSC) as treatment of long COVID. NK cells are a type of immune cell that have granules or small particles that can kill tumor cells or those infected with a virus. Panacell Biotech said they can […]

August 10, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Aug 2022

Allogenic immune cell therapies to be developed as three groups join forces

Three entities have joined forces to develop allogenic immune cell therapies based on a platform that generates functionally mature immune cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). ElevateBio LLC is a technology-driven company focused on powering transformative cell and gene therapies. It announced recently (August 5) that it has formed a yet-to-be-named company co-founded by […]

August 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 4 Aug 2022

RoslinCT and Lykan Bioscience combine to create cell therapy CDMO

RoslinCT, a cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) developing life-changing therapies in Edinburgh’s BioQuarter, and Lykan Bioscience, a CDMO focused on cell-based therapies, have entered into a business combination agreement to form a global advanced therapies CDMO. The combined group will offer process development expertise and cGMP manufacturing for a range […]

August 4, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Enrollment completed for trial looking at treatment of diabetic kidney disease

Enrollment has been completed for a study of a regenerative cell therapy investigational product for intra-renal artery administration to treat diabetic kidney disease (DKD). U.S.-based Caladrius Biosciences Inc., a clinical-stage biopharma company that develops therapies designed to treat or reverse disease, made the announcement today (August 2). The phase 1b open-label, proof-of-concept study will look […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Clinical hold on trial for colorectal cancer drug lifted by FDA

A clinical hold has been lifted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a trial for a treatment for colorectal cancer after changes were made by the company responsible. Belgium-based Celyad Oncology SA is a clinical biotech company focused on finding and developing chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies for cancer. […]

August 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 27 Jul 2022

T-cell therapy company AlloVir set to raise $126.6M

AlloVir, Inc., a late clinical-stage allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy company, has entered into a securities purchase agreement with a group of institutional and strategic investors to sell 27,458,095 shares of common stock in a registered direct offering at a purchase price of $4.61 per share. Gross proceeds from the offering will equal approximately $126.6 million. The […]

July 27, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Jul 2022

Oxford Biomedica sets up new project and signs LSA

Oxford Biomedica plc, a UK-based gene and cell therapy group, has initiated a new project with Orchard Therapeutics utilizing the company’s LentiStable technology. The group also announced the signing of a new licence and supply agreement (LSA) with an undisclosed US-based private biotech company advancing a new generation of adoptive cell therapies. LentiStable technology As […]

July 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 22 Jul 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 6: Mogrify, +ND Capital, Poolbeg Pharma

On this week’s podcast, our guests are Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma; Dani Bach, and Eric Moessinger, both partners at +ND Capital; and Louise Modis, chief scientific officer at Mogrify. Poolbeg Pharma gets approval for severe influenza drug trial Poolbeg Pharma, a clinical stage infectious disease pharmaceutical company, has received ethics and competent authority […]

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How CDMOs keep pace with trends in advanced therapies

Laverock Therapeutics created to develop next generation of programmable cell therapies

Zelluna Immunotherapy announces investment from Takeda Ventures, Inc.

Gene therapies for lung cancer identified by international team of scientists

Stem cell therapy to be used in treatment of long COVID by Panacell Biotech

Allogenic immune cell therapies to be developed as three groups join forces

RoslinCT and Lykan Bioscience combine to create cell therapy CDMO

Enrollment completed for trial looking at treatment of diabetic kidney disease

Clinical hold on trial for colorectal cancer drug lifted by FDA

T-cell therapy company AlloVir set to raise $126.6M

Oxford Biomedica sets up new project and signs LSA

Beyond Biotech podcast 6: Mogrify, +ND Capital, Poolbeg Pharma

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