Bayer

Bayer said the German drugmaker would invest around 2 billion euros ($2.23 billion) at pharmaceutical manufacturing sites over the next three years, mainly to bolster production of biotechnology products as well as cell and gene therapies.

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca will showcase the company’s early oncology portfolio that it believes has the potential to transform the oncology treatment landscape at the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference. 

Gene therapy development is a complex endeavor, with evolving regulations and complicated study logistics. In this article, Premier Research and Premier Consulting explore the regulatory and clinical trial landscape for gene therapy trials and offer strategies for successfully negotiating the challenges of executing these studies.

The U.S. health regulator approved a therapy developed by Johnson & Johnson and the healthcare company’s China-focused partner Legend Biotech Corp. to treat a type of white blood cell cancer.

Three companies – Intellia Therapeutics, Editas Medicine and uniQure – are each anticipating a bright 2022 as the promises of gene therapy continue to be realized.

BioNTech and Medigene announced a global agreement to develop T-cell immunotherapies against cancer. The three-year collaboration will focus on multiple solid tumor targets. 

Temps are falling and so is investor cash as BioSpace reviewed which biotech companies are scooping up the dollars.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Immunocore’s Kimmtrak (tebentafusp-tebn) for the treatment of HLA-A*02:01-positive adults with unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM). 

Cellino Biotech announced a completed Series A financing of $80 million led by the impact investment arm of Bayer AG, Leaps by Bayer, 8VC, and Humboldt Fund and includes new investor Felicis Ventures.

Affini-T Therapeutics, a new cell therapy company launched by researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, made its public debut at the 2022 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference with a mission to target oncogenic driver mutations to deliver transformative therapies intended to cure patients.