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CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Innovent Biologics | February 21, 2022

Innovent Biologics, Inc. a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, today announced the first patient dosing for its first-in-class IgG-based universal "modular" Claudin 18.2-targeting chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell product (development code: IBI345) for the treatment of advanced Claudin18.2-positive solid tumors in an investigator-...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Neurophth | January 19, 2021

Neurophth Therapeutics, Inc., a subsidiary of Wuhan Neurophth Biotechnology Ltd. gene therapy organization, and AAVnerGene Inc., a practicing AAV innovation organization, reports a strategic partnership to provide Neurophth with overall rights to commonly choose adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids for the next generation ophthalmic gene therapy. AAVnerGene's Tissue-specific, Highly-transductive and Expressive New AAVs (ATHENA) screening stage can productively choose the best ...

Labiotech | February 06, 2020

In a deal worth up to €67M, industry giant Nestlé Health Science will have the global rights to commercialize Valbiotis’ food supplement for lowering the rate of type 2 diabetes in people at high risk of developing the condition. Under the terms of the deal, the French biotech will receive an upfront payment of €4.7M from Nestlé, along with up to €62M in undisclosed development and sales milestone payments. The proceeds from the partnership will let Valbiotis c...

Yufan Biotechnologies | September 17, 2020

Exhaustion of T-cells is a key reason why CAR T-cell therapy may fail to control cancer. Recent work led by Xuebin Liao, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Science at Tsinghua University (Si et al., Cancer Cell 2020) shows that HPK1 (hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1) promotes T cell exhaustion via NFkB-Blimp1 activation and that blocking HPK1, either by gene knockout or by small-molecule inhibitors, is an attractive strategy to improve CAR T-cell immunotherapy. These innovative approaches a...