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News and Trends 13 Oct 2016

Adaptimmune Revises TCR Protocol following Phase I/IIa Failure

Shares of Adaptimmune slid 12% yesterday morning after the company updated its TCR therapy to include fludarabine, which was linked to deaths in Juno’s CAR-T trials. Despite optimism that T-cells are the key to cancer cures, the field has taken a number of hits this year. Most recently, the FDA put a partial hold on […]

October 13, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 29 Sep 2016

Titans in Gene Therapy and TCRs make a Massive Deal

Medigene has licensed a few candidates from its TCR platform to one of the Boston ‘it’ biotechs in a deal totaling around €1B. By partnering with bluebird bio, Medigene is reestablishing itself as a leader in immuno-oncology. Founded over 20 years ago, Medigene has risen to the top of the European biotech scene with a […]

September 29, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 16 Aug 2016

How did Cancer Cell Therapy become reality?

Using the body’s own tools to eradicate cancers has been a dream of Medicine for quite some time. How did the field of immuno-oncology evolve into today’s Biotech hype? The near-miraculous results of immuno-oncology cell therapies have dominated news about cancer breakthroughs. Indeed, CAR-T is a game-changer and are at the forefront of the ways Biotech […]

August 16, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 3 Aug 2016

UPDATED: TiGenix finishes Phase III Stem Cell therapy to treat Crohn’s disease

Belgium is a real pioneer in developing stem cell therapies. TiGenix pushes this precursor position even further by presenting good results from a Phase III of its stem cell therapy (Cx601) treating Crohn’s disease. UPDATE (article originally published on 24/8/2015): TiGenix’s Phase III results were now published in The Lancet. Julián Panés, the global coordinator […]

August 3, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 6 Jul 2016

Takeda snatches up Belgian Cell therapy for Crohn’s Disease

TiGenix is licensing the rights for its cell therapy which is under EMA review and is meant to treat a serious complication of Crohn’s disease. This worldwide exclusivity deal (with exception to the US) could be worth up to €380M. Back in 2009, Leuven-based TiGenix was the first to launch at cell-based product (ChondroCellect) on the European market. […]

July 6, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 30 Jun 2016

Key German Hospital to start a Phase I trial in TCR Cell Therapy

Medigene will make its clinical debut in TCR, in a collaboration with the Max Delbrück Centre and the Charité Hospital in Berlin. The planned Phase I trial focus on the blood cancer multiple myeloma. Based near Munich (Germany), Medigene develops different anti-cancer cell therapies, as we recently discussed in an interview with former CFO […]

June 30, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 29 Jun 2016

Cell Therapy for Heart Failure fails in Phase III … but not Entirely

Celyad failed to get significant results in its Phase III trial in cardiac disease. However, this cell therapy could still have a positive effect in a part of the patients. True potential or public relations patch? Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Biotech solutions in the field range from gene therapy (with uniQure and […]

June 29, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 28 Jun 2016

Will the Leading Italian Biotech soon have its First Cell therapy on the Market?

MolMed has received conditional market approval for Zalmoxis, an ex vivo genetically engineered cell therapy that stops immune rejection of transplanted hematopoietic stem cells. This is a big step forward in a key treatment for blood cancers. A transplant of hematopoietic stem cells (cells that give origin to blood cells) is often used as part of treatments for […]

June 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

Could this be the ‘Beginning of the end’ for Diabetes? Let’s Review.

Given the rates of diabetes reaching ‘epidemic proportions’, we figured it was time to have a better overview of biotech’s progress in the field. With some serious advances having been made in the treatment of the disease, we have to ask – how much further can biotech go in the treatment of diabetes? It is important […]

June 14, 2016 - 9 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

Immunocore has published key results for its new preclinical candidate for HIV, ImmTAV. This TCR-based immunotherapy has succeeded in targeting T-cells where HIV infection often ‘hides’ from drugs. Just after presenting promising results from its leading candidate at ASCO 2016 (read our coverage here), Immunocore is making headlines in another area – infectious disease. The […]

June 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 10 Jun 2016

CRISPR Thx in yet another Collaboration, this time for Muscle Dystrophy

CRISPR Therapeutics has struck a deal with Anagenesis Biotechnologies, which has key technology for muscle stem cells. Together, they will tackle muscle disorders – including the rare disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). CRISPR Therapeutics (Basel, Switzerland) is the European champion of gene editing for health applications, a field that promises to revolutionize therapies – even if […]

June 10, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 9 Jun 2016

Brain Cell Transplant could help with incurable Neurodegenerative Disease

Researchers from Copenhagen and the US have succeeded in slowing the progression of Huntington’s disease in mice with a transplant of healthy human brain cells. This provides a new route to tackle this incurable fatal disease. Cell therapies are promising for some of the most serious diseases, from their role in cancer treatment (one of the […]

June 9, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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Adaptimmune Revises TCR Protocol following Phase I/IIa Failure

Titans in Gene Therapy and TCRs make a Massive Deal

How did Cancer Cell Therapy become reality?

UPDATED: TiGenix finishes Phase III Stem Cell therapy to treat Crohn’s disease

Takeda snatches up Belgian Cell therapy for Crohn’s Disease

Key German Hospital to start a Phase I trial in TCR Cell Therapy

Cell Therapy for Heart Failure fails in Phase III … but not Entirely

Will the Leading Italian Biotech soon have its First Cell therapy on the Market?

Could this be the ‘Beginning of the end’ for Diabetes? Let’s Review.

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

CRISPR Thx in yet another Collaboration, this time for Muscle Dystrophy

Brain Cell Transplant could help with incurable Neurodegenerative Disease

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