Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals—Accelerating Drug Development Globally

Zylidac will test whether optogenetic cell lines that hit 21 g/L in small-scale CHO runs can deliver higher-yield complex biologics at GMP scale.

Nathan Edwards of Arya Consulting moderates a discussion with Elisabeth Gardiner of Tevard Biosciences and Donny Xu of the RTW Institute about rare disease treatment development and navigating the FDA’s Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher Program.

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.