Manufacturing

Revakinagene taroretcel (Encelto), the only FDA-approved MacTel therapy, slowed photoreceptor loss by up to 54.8% vs sham in phase 3 trials.

Backed by €400 million (US$449 million) in EU-cleared German aid, the new Frankfurt facility is designed to secure insulin supply for people with diabetes from 2032.

EA2251, the 7th registrational trial of ivonescimab, will test it plus chemotherapy vs pembrolizumab or durvalumab regimens in first-line BTC.

Inhaled EXO-CD24 kept 85% of patients with ARDS free of respiratory failure at day 7 vs 33.3% with placebo in a 90-patient phase 2b trial.

Nuravax will test AV-1959R in a 160-adult phase 2 trial to see whether the amyloid vaccine can prevent Alzheimer disease before symptoms begin.

In the phase 3 SHINE-2 trial, half of pediatric patients who responded to mirikizumab induction were in clinical remission at week 52. Lilly plans to file for a pediatric UC label expansion.

Guselkumab (Tremfya) sustained perianal fistula healing through 1 year in Crohn disease, with remission climbing to 35% in one FUZION dosing arm.

Interim phase 1/2 data presented at Retina in Rio 2026 showed sustained visual improvements with Opus Genetics’ AAV8 gene therapy OPGx-LCA5 and improved retinal sensitivity with OPGx-BEST1 in inherited retinal diseases.

Mirikizumab (Omvoh) achieved comprehensive disease control in 27.7% of UC patients and deep remission in 20.4% with Crohn disease at 1 year.

As ArsenalBio, TScan, Bristol Myers Squibb, and others abandon ex vivo programs for in vivo engineering, early clinical data and platform differences point to both the promise and the unresolved safety, manufacturing, and regulatory questions of generating CAR-T cells inside the body.

BNT113 plus pembrolizumab failed to significantly extend progression-free survival in a 285-patient HPV16-positive head and neck cancer trial.

Gilead will develop up to three PRO-XTEN T-cell engagers discovered by Vir Biotechnology for solid tumors in a deal worth up to $1.74 billion.

The FDA has accepted Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals’ resubmitted BLA for tabelecleucel, an allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy for EBV+ post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease. The FDA’s target action date is March 31, 2027.

Johnson & Johnson's guselkumab achieved up to 29% fistula remission in hard-to-treat Crohn disease subgroups, including prior biologic failures.

FDA has accepted for review the biologics license application for FYB206, a proposed pembrolizumab biosimilar developed without a comparative phase 3 efficacy trial. A decision could come in the third quarter of 2027.

In an eight-week obese non-human primate study, lean mass made up 6% of the weight lost with iBio’s Activin E antibody IBIO-610 plus semaglutide, compared with 22% with semaglutide alone. iBio plans to begin first-in-human studies in the first half of 2027.

Odyssey's 146-patient phase 2a trial will pair OD-001 with vedolizumab, targeting both innate and adaptive immune drivers of ulcerative colitis.

MT027, T-MAXIMUM's B7-H3 CAR-T therapy, earns a second FDA-cleared phase 2 trial, now testing lung and breast cancer brain metastases.

Antisense oligonucleotides are reshaping drug design, from RNase H gapmers to inhaled delivery; this FAQ explains how they work and why trials still fail.

Teprotumumab N01 (Sycume) reduced eye bulging in 60.4% of patients with chronic, inactive thyroid eye disease in a phase 3 trial.

Caribou is halting vispa-cel and CB-011, allogeneic CAR-T therapies that showed up to 92% response rates, citing a difficult financing environment.

Manufacturing remediation, not efficacy or safety data, is delaying US approval of Novo's h+emophilia A therapy denecimig.

Doubled drug substance capacity at Alvotech's Reykjavik, Iceland, site aims to secure steady US supply of the Humira biosimilar Simlandi.

Artiva Biotherapeutics will present data on AlloNK, an allogeneic, non-genetically modified NK cell therapy given with rituximab, in refractory rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren disease and systemic sclerosis at ACR Convergence 2026, ahead of a planned phase 3 trial in rheumatoid arthritis.

The 15-month project could let living cell therapies ship and store at room temperature, cutting cold-chain costs that limit patient access.