NKarta Therapeutics is using engineered chimeric antigen receptor natural killer T cells (CAR-NKT cells) for allogeneic therapy, showing substantial benefits both in vitro and in vivo, according to the company’s CSO James Trager at the virtual CAR-TCR Summit – Europe.
Shares of Cellectis Therapeutics were up in trading after the gene-editing pioneer company forged a deal with Cambridge, Mass.-based Cytovia Therapeutics to develop immunotherapies based on gene-edited allogeneic CAR T-cells.
Bristol Myers Squibb reported that the company was abandoning the BCMA CAR-T therapy orva-cel and taking a $470 million write-off.
AbbVie announced the company’s latest chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell investment, a collaboration with Caribou Biosciences worth $40 million up front in cash and equity to develop two CRISPR-edited cell therapies against AbbVie-specified targets.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel; liso-cel) for adults with relapsed or refractory large B-Cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy.
Days after Bayer announced a new cell and gene therapy strategy to maximize the capabilities of some recent acquisitions, the Germany-based life sciences giant is jumping into the CAR-T space and expanding the company’s oncology focus through a collaboration with Bay Area-based Atara Biotherapeutics.
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition began December 5 with numerous presentations, abstracts and posters.
BioSpace reviewed the third-quarter 2020 financial announcements from some of the biopharma industry’s leading players.
South San Francisco-based Allogene Therapeutics released some early data from the company’s UNIVERSAL clinical trial of ALLO-715 for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
Shares of Bellicum Pharmaceuticals plunged following an announcement that the company will slash 79% of employees as part of a restructuring following the developmental pause for one CAR-T program.