AstraZeneca today announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Gracell Biotechnologies Inc. (Gracell, NASDAQ: GRCL), a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, furthering AstraZeneca’s cell therapy ambition. The acquisition…
AbbVie and Umoja Biopharma, an early clinical-stage biotechnology company, today announced two exclusive option and license agreements to develop multiple in-situ generated CAR-T cell therapy candidates in oncology using Umoja’s proprietary VivoVecTM platform. The first agreement provides AbbVie an exclusive…
AstraZeneca has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gracell Biotechnologies, a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, furthering the AstraZeneca cell therapy ambition. The proposed acquisition will enrich AstraZeneca’s…
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and CRISPR Therapeutics announced today that FDA has approved CASGEVY™ (exagamglogene autotemcel [exa-cel]), a CRISPR/Cas9 genome-edited cell therapy, for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) in patients 12 years and older with recurrent vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs).…
Bristol Myers Squibb K.K. announced that the company has received manufacturing and marketing approval of the supplemental New Drug Application for an additional indication for Abecma®, a B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy, for patients…
Sernova Corp., a clinical-stage company and leader in cell therapeutics, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted both Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) and Rare Pediatric Disease Designation (RPDD) for the company’s Hemophilia A program. The FDA…