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News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

LIfT BioSciences has announced what it says are exciting preclinical data demonstrating that its immunomodulatory alpha neutrophil product (IMANp) possesses both cytotoxic and immunomodulatory functionalities. The company said these are commonly cited by medical professionals as being critical for potentially curing solid tumors in patients. LIfT BioSciences said this involved learning from the experience of other […]

March 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 8 Mar 2023

Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program supports women in science

Marlin Frechette is the chief quality and compliance officer at FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific. But she has another role. Frechette is also a member of Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program, and was formerly a mentor, and she tells us here how the program supports women in executive level life science roles. Frechette takes up the […]

March 8, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Mar 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 36: Bio-Europe Spring and Cellular Origins

Two of the interviews on the podcast today are related to Bio-Europe Spring. There are conversations with Rosie Bernard, senior director, production and content strategy for EBD Group EU, with an overview of the event, and also Jordan Stillman, project manager, partnering services at EBD Group. We also have a chat with Cellular Origins’ CEO […]

March 3, 2023

News and Trends 3 Mar 2023

Porton and DanausGT look to boost development of gene and cell therapy

Porton Advanced Solutions Ltd. and DanausGT Biotechnology Co., Ltd. have announced a strategic collaboration in gene and cell therapy pipelines to expedite the development of innovative therapeutics. As an end-to-end gene and cell therapy service provider, Porton Advanced CDMO offers solutions covering plasmids, cell therapy, gene therapy, oncolytic viruses, mRNA therapy, and bacterial therapy. DanausGT […]

March 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Feb 2023

Syena created to deliver first-in-class TCR-NK cell therapy

Replay, a genome writing company reprogramming biology by writing and delivering big DNA, and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, have launched Syena, a new oncology-focused product company pioneering T-cell receptor (TCR) natural killer (NK) cell therapies (TCR-NKs). Building on the intellectual property and technology from MD Anderson and Replay, Syena has the […]

February 14, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 10 Feb 2023

Heartseed and Novo Nordisk dose first patient in heart failure cell therapy study

Heartseed Inc. and Novo Nordisk A/S say Heartseed has successfully dosed the first patient in a phase 1/2 clinical study (LAPiS Study) with HS-001 – an investigational cell therapy for heart failure. An independent safety evaluation committee has evaluated four-week data on the patient, who lives with advanced heart failure and has given approval for […]

February 10, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Feb 2023

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult boost for life science campus

The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult), an independent U.K. innovation and technology organization specializing in the advancement of cell and gene therapies, has announced its involvement in the development of a major new campus for life science businesses in Stevenage. The new campus was announced by UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private […]

February 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Streamlining CAR-T cell therapy manufacturing: a platform approach

Chimeric antigen receptor-T cell (CAR-T) therapy is an exciting treatment modality for blood cancers that do not respond to standard treatment. But manufacturing these CAR-T therapies brings challenges. How can life science companies overcome them to minimize costs and improve patient access? In patients with cancer for whom chemotherapy proves unsuccessful, CAR-T therapy may provide […]

February 7, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 27 Jan 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 31: Orgenesis, Phacilitate, Terumo, University of Birmingham, VIVEBiotech

Phacilitate’s Advanced Therapies Week took place last week in Miami Beach, Florida. This week, we speak with the organizers, as well as some of the companies in attendance. Our guests are Kim Barnes, EVP, Phacilitate; Kathie Schneider, director and global commercial lead at Terumo; Vered Caplan, CEO, Orgenesis; Ivan Wall, head of the Centre for […]

January 27, 2023

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Orbsen Therapeutics happy with interim diabetic kidney disease study results

Orbsen Therapeutics Limited has announced what it says are encouraging headline interim results from the EU Horizon 2020-funded NEPHSTROM clinical trial for diabetic kidney disease. NEPHSTROM is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1/2a, trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of an off-the-shelf allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell immunotherapy, ORBCEL, in adult study […]

January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

First leukemia patient dosed with SMART101

Smart Immune has announced that the first adult leukemia patient has been dosed with SMART101, a T-cell progenitor cell injection derived from donor stem cells using ProTcell at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center (MSK). The phaseI/II trial is a multicenter, open-label, first-in-human study expected to enroll up to 36 adult and pediatric patients with hematological malignancies, […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 20 Jan 2023

The future of single-cell microfluidics in cell engineering

By Richard Hammond, chief technical officer at Sphere Fluidics Single-cell microfluidic-based techniques continue to be a key enabling technology for cell engineering as they allow true single-cell level working, with the associated precision of measurement and control of environment, and a high level of automation, enabling the speed and scale necessary to process and search […]

January 20, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program supports women in science

Beyond Biotech podcast 36: Bio-Europe Spring and Cellular Origins

Porton and DanausGT look to boost development of gene and cell therapy

Syena created to deliver first-in-class TCR-NK cell therapy

Heartseed and Novo Nordisk dose first patient in heart failure cell therapy study

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult boost for life science campus

Streamlining CAR-T cell therapy manufacturing: a platform approach

Beyond Biotech podcast 31: Orgenesis, Phacilitate, Terumo, University of Birmingham, VIVEBiotech

Orbsen Therapeutics happy with interim diabetic kidney disease study results

First leukemia patient dosed with SMART101

The future of single-cell microfluidics in cell engineering

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