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CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Takeda | January 11, 2022

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced the exercise of its option to acquire Adaptate Biotherapeutics a UK company focused on developing antibody-based therapeutics for the modulation of variable delta 1 (Vδ1) gamma delta (γδ) T cells. Through the acquisition, Takeda will obtain Adaptate’s antibody-based γδ T cell engager platform, including pre-clinical candidate and discovery pipeline programs. Adaptate’s γδ T cell engagers are des...

Labiotech | January 15, 2020

The US company bluebird bio has launched the first gene therapy for the blood disorder transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia in the EU, with a hospital in Germany becoming its first qualified treatment center. Bluebird bio’s gene therapy, branded as Zynteglo, was given conditional market approval by the EU in June 2019. It was the first gene therapy approved to treat people over 12 years of age with all but the most severe form of transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, a condition that n...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

CSL Plasma | August 08, 2022

CSL Plasma, the plasma collection business of global biotherapeutics leader CSL Behring, began a new era in plasma donations, collecting its first plasma donations using leading-edge plasma collection technology that is expected to significantly reduce average collection time – by approximately one-third – and improve the donor experience. The Rika Plasma Donation System, only available at CSL Plasma and developed by Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, is designe...

MEDICAL

Slate Bio | January 20, 2021

Slate Bio, Inc., reports the closing of a $1.75 million venture financing. Epidarex Capital drove the speculation round with cooperation from the UVA Licensing and Ventures Group Seed Fund, Center for Innovative Technology's GAP BioLife Fund, VTC Seed Fund, PharmaDirections, Inc., the board and others. Record is a pre-clinical biotechnology organization creating outlook changing IL-2 mixes dependent on examination directed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. IL233, Slate's ...