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Anticipating approval for its COPD therapy ensifentrine, Verona has entered into a $650 million financing deal with Oaktree Capital Management and OMERS Life Sciences.
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With 15 patients started across its three gene therapies, bluebird bio claims a 138% year-over-year revenue growth and aims to initiate up to around 100 new patients in the current year.
At a Thursday ASGCT 2024 session, CBER Director Peter Marks made the case for a better, “more convergent” global framework on cell and gene therapies, especially for rare diseases.
The Bay Area–based biotech plans to use the funds to advance two lead programs, one to treat atopic dermatitis and another for immune-mediated diseases.
As competition with Eli Lilly heats up, Novo Nordisk has partnered with Flagship’s Metaphore Biotechnologies to take a biomimicry approach to GLP-1s.
After a combination with Eisai’s Lenvima failed to improve survival in advanced disease in December, adjuvant Keytruda plus chemotherapy missed the mark in newly diagnosed, high-risk patients.
An autologous and personalized regulatory T cell therapy is safe in patients with type 1 diabetes, but does not help preserve β-cell function.
Takeda saw a 57% drop in profit in its 2023 fiscal year and has lowered its outlook for the coming fiscal year, mostly driven by increasing generic competition for its ADHD treatment Vyvanse.
Launched in 2021, the public-private consortium on Wednesday updated ASGCT attendees on its efforts to bring adeno-associated virus gene therapies to more rare disease patients.