In August, Pact Pharma Inc. suspended its phase I trial after 16 patients had been treated with its autologous CRISPR-edited T cells “for business reasons,” the company announced at the time. Scientifically, though, the trial broke enough new ground to be concurrently presented in a late-breaking oral session at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) and published as an accelerated article preview in Nature on Nov. 10, 2022.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting including: Apexigen, Aulos, CG, Crispr, Cue, Curevac, Domain, Enterome, Immutep, Invios, Iovance, Medikine, Neoimmunetech.
Fresh off announcing a new $1.2 billion joint drug discovery and development project with Sanofi SA, Insilico Medicine Inc. founder and CEO Alex Zhavoronkov joined a chorus of executives at the Asia Summit on Global Health in proclaiming the critical importance of partnership between biopharma, tech companies, and regulators, even amid rising tensions between China and the West.
“We look at Japan with some envy with what they’ve been able to achieve and their approach to regenerative medicine, which has been supported significantly by their federal government,” said Silvio Tiziano, CEO of the Center for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine Australia, during the recent Ausbiotech conference in Perth.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week including: Boehringer, Chinook, Eli Lilly, Horizon, Ionis, Lexicon, Vera.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting including: Affimed, Compugen, Genenta, Geneos, Hummingbird, Iovance, Nextcure, Nouscom, Oncolytics.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions including: Amgen, Incarda, Innovent, Lexicon, Renibus, Silence.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the AASLD Liver Meeting, including: 89bio, Albireo, Ascentage, Gannex, Seal Rock, Vaccitech, Vir.
Modern molecular techniques have progressed to the point where sequencing can seem almost quaint. At the Basic Science Symposium of The Liver Meeting 2022, new techniques were on full display, with sessions devoted to epigenetics, microbiome analysis and spatial transcriptomics. But the first session was still on genetic variants in all their forms – rare variants, common variants and non-germline mutations.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week including: Alpine Immune, Ionis, Kezar, Valenzabio, Xortx.