Therapeutic Specific Areas

Dr. Nicole Faust, General Manager, Cell Line Development at Cytiva, speaks about fundamental constriction points in emerging therapies, high-titre vector-producing cells.

The MAA is supported by data from the pivotal Phase III GEMSTONE-302 trial that evaluated treatment with sugemalimab in combination with chemotherapy in patients with metastatic NSCLC.

The European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization to the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson for CARVYKTI (ciltacabtagene autoleucel), a cell therapy for treating multiple myeloma.

Further development of nucleic acid-based therapeutics has been accelerated by the recent success of mRNA vaccines.

The recent success of mRNA vaccines has opened the door for further and future development of nucleic acid-based therapies.

ImmunoGen and Eli Lilly and Company have entered into an agreement that gives Lilly exclusive rights to research, develop, and commercialize ADCs designed for targets selected by Lilly from ImmunoGen’s camptothecin technology.

Eli Lilly and Company has entered into a research and collaboration agreement with Entos Pharmaceuticals to develop new therapeutics for treating neurologic disorders.

Pfizer’s proposed $2.26-billion acquisition of Trillium Therapeutics will add next-generation hematology-targeted immuno-therapeutics to its oncology pipeline.

FDA has approved AstraZeneca’s Saphnelo, a type I interferon receptor antibody for treating systemic lupus erythematosus.

Byondis and Glycotope have formed an agreement to discover and develop antibodies that target specific glyco-epitopes.

Amgen’s Aimovig has become the first and only approved treatment in Japan for treating migraine attacks in adults by blocking the CGRP-R.

FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to donanemab, Eli Lilly and Co.’s investigational antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

Projects led by collaborating researchers from both Sanofi and Stanford Medicine will focus on autoimmune diseases and inflammatory conditions.

Eli Lilly and Company has partnered with leading diabetes tech firms to offer app compatibility with insulin smart pens to streamline diabetes management with automated data collection.

The European Commission has approved an additional indication for Roche’s Tecentriq (atezolizumab) as a first-line monotherapy treatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

FDA’s newly proposed draft guidance will support IND filings of antisense oligonucleotides, a new class of drugs.

A growing pipeline of gene therapy candidates aimed at treating neurodegenerative diseases has prompted new guidance.

The collaboration will focus on up to three types of lung and gastrointestinal cancers.

The EC’s approval was based on positive results from a Phase III clinical trial that demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in patients compared to chemotherapy.

Innovate UK has awarded Epsilogen with further grant funding for the development of the next generation antibody treatments for ovarian cancer.

VAR2 Pharmaceuticals has been selected for its development of a drug-conjugated malaria protein that potentially selectively binds to most human tumor types.

Phesgo is a fixed-dose-combination subcutaneous injection of Perjeta (pertuzumab) and Herceptin (trastuzumab) for treating HER2-positive breast cancer.

The companies have entered into a development and manufacturing agreement for Anthos Therapeutics’ abelacimab for treating thrombotic disorders.

The partnership, led by Takeda and CSL Behring, will focus on developing a hyperimmune immunoglobulin against COVID-19.

The therapy works by transferring pathogen-specific antibodies from plasma gathered from recovered individuals into an infected patient, which may help the patient’s immune system respond and increase recovery.