Neurogene Inc.’s stock sank 43% on news that its phase I/II gene therapy, NGN-401, resulted in a serious adverse event in a pediatric Rett syndrome patient receiving the highest dose.
PTC Therapeutics Inc.’s accelerated go-ahead from the U.S. FDA for Kebilidi (eladocagene exuparvovec-tneq), a recombinant adeno-associated virus serotype 2-based gene therapy to treat aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, came with a priority review voucher (PRV) that the company intends to monetize.
Gene therapy faces complexities in delivering treatments due to persistent safety concerns and daunting immune responses, but Next Generation Gene Therapeutics Inc. has found a way around this issue using dual-functional vectors to simultaneously remove harmful, mutated genes and replace them with normal, healthy genes to restore cellular function.
Gene therapy faces complexities in delivering treatments due to persistent safety concerns and daunting immune responses, but Next Generation Gene Therapeutics Inc. has found a way around this issue using dual-functional vectors to simultaneously remove harmful, mutated genes and replace them with normal, healthy genes to restore cellular function.
Belief Biomed Inc.’s gene therapy drug BBM-D101 has been awarded U.S. orphan drug and rare pediatric disease designations by the FDA for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common hereditary degenerative eye disease that leads to progressive vision loss, primarily caused by retinal degeneration.
Cell and gene therapy companies are the beneficiaries of positive changes along the regulatory path that the U.S. FDA is paving for them, according to a panel of executives who spoke at the BioFuture 2024 conference in New York.
Cell and gene therapy companies are the beneficiaries of positive changes along the regulatory path that the U.S. FDA is paving for them, according to a panel of executives who spoke at the BioFuture 2024 conference in New York. The agency is trying to set up cell and gene companies for success and that’s a very different agency than what it was years ago, said Paul Bresge, CEO of Ray Therapeutics Inc.
Ring Therapeutics Inc. has joined forces with Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research and with the Singapore Eye Research Institute to advance the first new class of viral vectors in more than 50 years, Ring CEO Tuyen Ong told BioWorld.
Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) set up its second overseas regulatory office in Washington, four months after the drug and med-tech regulator opened its first Asia base in Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2024.