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Imugene in-licenses Precision Bioscience’s allogeneic CD19 CAR T in $227M deal

Aug. 22, 2023
By Tamra Sami
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Immuno-oncology company Imugene Ltd. has acquired a worldwide exclusive license to Precision Biosciences Inc.’s allogeneic CD19 CAR T-cell therapy program in a deal worth more than $227 million. The off-the-shelf CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, azercabtagene zapreleucel (azer-cel), could potentially be the first allogeneic CAR T to be approved, Imugene CEO Leslie Chong told BioWorld.
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Pan-cancer studies take pan-oramic view on proteogenomics

Aug. 22, 2023
By Mar de Miguel
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The vast variety of tumors makes each cancer a world. For researchers, understanding the commonalities and divergences in their molecular underpinnings could help find successful treatments. Scientists from the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) have addressed these similarities and differences in 10 different types of cancer with two proteogenomic studies to unravel the genes that lead to cancer and the galaxy of interactions that regulate them.
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Dotbio emerges with $5.6M pre-series A to advance multifunctional antibodies

Aug. 15, 2023
By Tamra Sami
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Emerging from stealth mode, new immuno-oncology company Dotbio Pte. Ltd. closed an oversubscribed $5.6 million pre-series A round to accelerate development of its multifunctional and intracellular antibody therapies.
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Oricell clears IND hurdle for homegrown CAR T in China

Aug. 15, 2023
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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Oricell Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has become the latest Chinese biotech to advance an independently developed CAR T therapy, announcing Aug. 10 that China’s regulatory body gave IND approval for Oricar-017. Oricar-017 is the Shanghai-based biotech’s GPRC5D-directed CAR T therapy developed to treat patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
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China’s Biocity expands to US with pipeline of bispecific antibodies and ADCs

Aug. 15, 2023
By Tamra Sami
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Biocity Biopharmaceutics Co. Ltd. is advancing its pipeline of differentiated, modality-independent therapeutics for oncology that include small molecules, monoclonal and bispecific antibodies, as well as antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). The Wuxi, China-headquartered company is focused on first-in-class molecules for different modalities that can be combined with other treatments, Biocity Co-founder and Executive Vice President Ivy Wang told BioWorld.
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Kelun’s Trop2 ADC meets primary endpoints in phase III triple-negative breast cancer trial

Aug. 15, 2023
By Tamra Sami
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Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (Trop2)-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), SKB-264, met the primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) in a phase III trial in patients with unresectable locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), according to an interim analysis.
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Biologic cancer drug developer Sunho targets HK IPO

Aug. 8, 2023
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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On Aug. 3, Sunho Biologics Inc. filed to list on the Hong Kong Exchange, armed with its antibody and immunocytokine drug pipeline and post-investment valuation of ¥1.41 billion (US$196 million).
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Chinese CAR T-maker Gracell raises $150M in private financing

Aug. 8, 2023
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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Gracell Biotechnologies Inc. stands to gain up to $150 million from an assorted bouquet of private U.S. health care investors to lay a solid foundation for clinical trials of its leading dual-targeting CAR T-cell candidate, GC-012F, and provide a cash runway into the second half of 2026.
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Long path finally leads to US approval of Daiichi Sankyo’s quizartinib in AML

July 25, 2023
By Jennifer Boggs
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Nearly five years after submitting its first NDA seeking U.S. approval for Vanflyta (quizartinib) for treating a subset of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. finally cleared the last hurdle. The FDA on July 20 approved the FLT3 inhibitor for use in combination with cytarabine and anthracycline induction and cytarabine consolidation, and as maintenance monotherapy following consolidation chemotherapy, for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed disease that is FLT3 ITD-positive.
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Lisa Park, CEO, Prestige Biopharma

Prestige Biopharma aims to become leading cancer drug developer

July 25, 2023
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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Prestige Biopharma Ltd. is mounting efforts to rise rank through the industry with a two-pronged strategy of becoming a global cancer antibody drug developer and contract development and manufacturing organization.
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