CELL AND GENE THERAPY
Biocytogen | June 23, 2021
Biocytogen, a worldwide biotechnology organization zeroed in on neutralizer drug innovative work (R&D) utilizing creative genetically designed creature models, today declared the fruitful culmination of another round of financing adding up to a huge number of dollars. The financing was together finished by Lake Bleu Capital, CPE, Octagon Capital and OrbiMed.
Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was set up in 2009. Utilizing its primary quality altering innovation, the organization autonomously created mouse stages for completely human neutralizer disclosure, RenMab® and RenLite®, that have free protected innovation rights. With the execution of these stages, Biocytogen has advanced from an agreement research association (CRO) into a global biotechnology organization with aptitude crossing the whole cycle of new drug R&D, including immune response drug target check, high-throughput single B cell counter acting agent revelation innovation, in vivo drug viability assessment utilizing adapted objective mice, and clinical turn of events.
Genetic engineering of RenMab® and RenLite® mice has empowered the integration of Biocytogen's innovative qualities into a one of a kind enormous scope R&D plan for the revelation of helpful antibodies, a drive named the RenMice HiTS Platform. The HiTS Platform means the organization's obligation to finish high-productivity counter acting agent revelation and in vivo drug viability screening of in excess of 1,000 neutralizer targets in the following not many years, zeroing in on the disclosure of first-in-class and top tier drug targets. Through the ID of immune response drives that have been confirmed for adequacy in creature models, Biocytogen has set up co-improvement associations with in excess of twelve biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations.
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CELL AND GENE THERAPY
Taysha | December 30, 2020
Taysha Gene Therapies, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSHA), a patient-driven gene therapy organization focused in on creating and commercializing AAV-based quality treatments for the treatment of monogenic infections of the focal sensory system in both uncommon and huge patient populaces, today reported new increases to its authority group with the arrangements of Greg Gara as Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and Kimberly Lee, D.O., as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations.
Taysha Gene Therapies, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSHA), a patient-centric gene therapy organization zeroed in on creating and commercializing AAV-based qgene therapies for the treatment of monogenic infections of the focal sensory system in both uncommon and huge patient populaces, today declared new increases to its authority group with the arrangements of Greg Gara as Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and Kimberly Lee, D.O., as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations.
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MEDICAL
Resilience | June 07, 2022
National Resilience, Inc. (Resilience) and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced the launch of a joint venture, the Cell Therapy Manufacturing Center, to accelerate the development and manufacturing of innovative cell therapies for patients with cancer. Uniting the strengths of Resilience and MD Anderson, the joint venture will advance its work within a culture of academic innovation alongside industrial expertise.
The Cell Therapy Manufacturing Center will be based in a state-of-the art 60,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Texas Medical Center, with a team of 70 employees focused on process and analytical development as well as early-phase and clinical-stage Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
The joint venture combines MD Anderson’s expertise in immunotherapy and cell therapies as well as a leading clinical trials infrastructure, with Resilience’s innovative biomanufacturing technologies, advanced analytics and a national network for developing and producing cell therapies. Together, the parties aim to accelerate the path of cell therapies to the clinic, while enabling scalability and a smooth transition to late-phase clinical and commercial activities.
Cell therapies have had a dramatic impact for patients with certain cancers, but progress has been hampered by structural challenges, This novel joint venture was conceived to address those challenges by harnessing the complementary capabilities of two world-class organizations, allowing us to advance innovative programs to deliver impactful therapies to patients.”
Jason Bock, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of the Cell Therapy Manufacturing Center.
The joint venture will engage with MD Anderson researchers and external industry collaborators to advance new therapies through preclinical and clinical development, ensuring consistent and safe products that can be evaluated rapidly in clinical trials led by MD Anderson physicians. Resilience customers will be able to leverage this offering as part of the company’s growing network of biomanufacturing facilities that are flexible enough to scale projects from small-batch pre-clinical to large-scale commercial production. Resilience has 10 facilities across North America, with more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space.
The promise of cell therapies to help patients in need has been limited by a lack of innovation in biomanufacturing, This collaboration aims to overcome those hurdles by extending our network with this unique partnership, creating opportunities to incubate innovative ideas and provide cutting-edge biomanufacturing technologies and processes to researchers, with a goal of bringing more cell therapies to patients.”
Rahul Singhvi, Sc.D., Chief Executive Officer of Resilience.
The joint venture will advance the most promising cell therapy modalities to answer unmet clinical needs, including engineered tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells, endogenous T cells (ETCs), engineered natural killer (NK) cells and other emerging technologies, for patients with hematological and solid tumors. MD Anderson researchers are leaders in the field of cancer cell therapy, responsible for advancing the translational and clinical development of many of the currently approved and experimental cell therapies.
The joint venture is built upon MD Anderson’s Biologics Development platform, formerly part of the institution’s Therapeutics Discovery division. Current strategic collaborations with MD Anderson’s Biologics Development platform will continue; collaborative relationships with MD Anderson’s Therapeutics Discovery division, as well as physicians and scientists across the institution, also will be maintained.
We believe in the tremendous potential of cell therapies to deliver solutions that offer cures, not merely prolonged survival. Resilience offers unique capabilities that make it an ideal choice for unlocking that potential and accelerating impactful cell therapies, Our mission at MD Anderson is to end cancer, and this joint venture is a strategic step toward realizing that goal.”
Ferran Prat, Ph.D., J.D., senior vice president for Research Administration and Industry Relations at MD Anderson.
About Resilience
Resilience is a technology-focused biomanufacturing company dedicated to broadening access to complex medicines. Founded in 2020, the company is building a sustainable network of high-tech, end-to-end manufacturing solutions to ensure the treatments of today and tomorrow can be made quickly, safely, and at scale. Resilience seeks to free its partners to focus on the discoveries that improve patients’ lives by continuously advancing the science of biopharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
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