CELL AND GENE THERAPY
Thermo Fisher Scientific | March 01, 2021
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world chief in serving science, today reported it has finished its recently declared obtaining of Mesa Biotech, Inc., a secretly held purpose of-care sub-atomic analytic organization.
Plateau Biotech has built up the Accula System, a moderate, simple to-utilize, purpose of-care PCR-based testing stage for irresistible infection conclusion. The stage empowers fast, exceptionally precise testing at doctor workplaces, drug stores and different settings, giving outcomes quickly. Past COVID-19 testing, Mesa Biotech's current stage incorporates tests for influenza, respiratory syncytial infection (RSV), and Strep A.
"The Accula System complements our existing offerings and immediately provides our clinical customers with more options and flexibility for COVID-19 testing. And, as the point-of-care diagnostic market expands globally, we're well-positioned to deliver a broader menu of tests to meet increasing demand," Stevenson continued.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $30 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 80,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon.
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CELL AND GENE THERAPY
Cellares Corporation | July 16, 2021
Cellares Corporation, a life sciences technology company that has pioneered a revolutionary automated approach to cell therapy manufacturing announced today that Poseida Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that uses proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create cell and gene therapeutics with the potential to cure, has joined its Early Access Partnership Program (EAPP). Poseida joins PACT Pharma and academic partner Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as the third entity to join Cellares' EAPP.
Cellares launched the EAPP in 2020 to provide participants awareness and early access to Cellares' Cell Shuttle, a next-generation cell therapy manufacturing platform that enables closed, automated, and scalable cell therapy production. Poseida's involvement in the initiative adds to the Cell Shuttle's development, range of usage, and applicability by providing insight and experience in manufacturing processes for various autologous and allogeneic cell therapies.
Poseida is presently testing two autologous CAR-T product candidates in the clinic: P-BCMA-101 for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and P-PSMA-101 for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. The firm, which completed an initial public offering in July 2020, is also developing off-the-shelf versions of these treatments and TCR-T, anti-c-kit CAR-T, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), and NK cells. In addition, Carl June, M.D., an immunotherapy pioneer and renowned oncologist who advised Cellares on creating the Cell Shuttle has just joined Poseida's Immuno-Oncology Scientific Advisory Board.
Poseida will assess the Cell Shuttle prototypes and give statistics and written comments related to their function and performance as part of Cellares' EAPP. In addition, user studies will be conducted to assess the Cell Shuttle's hardware and software, product requirements, release criteria, and process processes to ensure product-market fit.
About The Cell Shuttle
The Cell Shuttle is a flexible and scalable automated and closed end-to-end production solution that allows clients to execute the precise procedures required for their cell therapy. Compared to presently existing cell therapy manufacturing methods, this next-generation platform allows for a threefold decrease in process failure rates and the ability to produce 10+ patient doses in parallel, improving manufacturing scalability by order of magnitude. For most processes, this will reduce per-patient manufacturing costs by up to 70%.
About Cellares Corporation
Cellares is rethinking cell therapy manufacturing and accelerating access to life-saving cell therapies. The business is working on a one-of-a-kind approach to solving the difficulties of generating cell therapies that are cheaper and broadly accessible to people in need. Cellares' proprietary platform, the Cell Shuttle, eliminates the need for biopharma companies, academic research centers, and CDMOs to choose between a manufacturing platform that is semi-automated but lacks workflow flexibility or one that provides customization but lacks the end-to-end automation required to manufacture at scale. The business is based in South San Francisco, California.
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MEDICAL
biotech, biotechnology, cell, gene, tissue | June 10, 2022
SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) of Barcelona, and the Spanish Diagnóstica Longwood today announced from the European Hematology Association Congress in Vienna that they have combined their expertise to develop a new Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) solution to advance CLL care. This collaboration will unify the wide variety of current guideline recommendations into one single application aiming to improve CLL characterization and CLL research practices in Iberia.
SOPHiA GENETICS has already facilitated the analysis of one million genomic profiles through the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform, including a significant amount of onco-hematological-related diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia and lymphomas. The Platform computes a wide array of genomic variants needed to continually hone machine learning algorithms designed to accurately detect rare and challenging cases. The growing number of users of the SOPHiA DDM™ community can share and access insights by pulling the relevant signals detected from the noise, ultimately saving time and helping to make better-informed decisions.
The new CLL solution allows for progress of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia research using genomic analysis. This could lead to better detection of the disease, which accounts for 25-30% of all leukemia cases in Western countries and affects yearly more than 100,000 people globally[1], and ultimately improve patient care. Thanks to the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform and IDIBAPS, hematopathologists can now access guidelines for the mutational status of TP53, immunoglobulin (IG) gene rearrangements and their somatic hypermutation status, while benefitting from the identification of 23 CLL-specific genes for SNVs, InDels and CNVs including NOTCH1, SF3B1, ATM, IGLV3-21, BTK, PLCG2, BCL2, del13q14, and trisomy 12, all in one single NGS workflow.
The new CLL solution has already been used in routine in Spain, with further opportunities throughout the country, and in Latin America through Diagnóstica Longwood's distribution channels.
We are proud to work together with some of the most renowned experts in the field of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia research around the world. This partnership is a great example of how combining advanced data analytics with emerging CLL strategies can move the possibilities of data-driven medicine forward."
Lara Hashimoto, Chief Business Officer at SOPHiA GENETICS.
It is a great satisfaction to see how thanks to the partnership with SOPHiA GENETICS and Diagnóstica Longwood we will be able to transfer into clinical practice the relevant information generated for so many years in the research of CLL using a simple and robust assay."
Elías Campo, principal investigator and director of IDIBAPS.
About SOPHiA GENETICS
SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH) is a healthcare technology company dedicated to establishing the practice of data-driven medicine as the standard of care and for life sciences research. It is the creator of the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform, a cloud-based SaaS platform capable of analyzing data and generating insights from complex multimodal data sets and different diagnostic modalities. The SOPHiA DDM™ Platform and related solutions, products and services are currently used by more than 790 hospital, laboratory, and biopharma institutions globally.
About IDIBAPS
The August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) is a biomedical research center of excellence that addresses the most common diseases in our environment. It is a public consortium comprising the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya), the Hospital Clínic Barcelona, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona and the CSIC Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona.
About 1,500 professionals are organized in a hundred research groups. IDIBAPS undertakes translational research. It focuses on ensuring that the questions that arise at the patient's bedside have a response in the laboratory, and that advances made in the laboratory are promptly applied to patients. With over 1,200 articles published annually, it is the leading biomedical research center in Spain.
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