Amgen Chief Executive Officer Robert Bradway is excited about 2022. During his presentation at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Bradway said things are lining up for long-term growth for the California-based company. 

Brisbane, California-based Sangamo Therapeutics announced that Sanofi US was returning rights to SAR445136 as the Paris-based company shifts its approach from personalized cell therapies to allogeneic off-the-shelf genomic approaches.

CGT supply chain mastery starts with a clear understanding of the patient journey and product journey and how these two journeys diverge from processes companies have established to support other modalities.

Eversana

EVERSANA, a pioneer of next-generation commercial services to the global life sciences industry, announced its membership in the European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE), the region’s principal trade association for small to medium-sized companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech industries.

Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical announced deals with two biotech companies, Seattle-based Immusoft and San Diego’s Poseida Therapeutics.

Massachusetts-based Kytopen has seen an influx of cash during the past few months. Most recently, the biotech raised a large chunk of money in the company’s Series A funding round, which was announced on Sept. 28.

Shares of Adaptimmune Therapeutics skyrocketed after the company announced an agreement to develop and commercialize allogeneic cell therapies for cancer with Genentech.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Arbor Biotechnologies announced a new collaboration to enhance efforts in developing ex vivo engineered cell therapies, using Arbor’s proprietary CRISPR gene-editing technology for select diseases.

Shoreline Biosciences is developing an off-the-shelf, targeted, allogeneic approach to natural killer (NK) and macrophage cell therapies which the immunotherapy company’s chairman and CEO believes is one-of-a-kind.

The European Commission granted Conditional Marketing Authorization for Bristol Myers Squibb’s Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel; ide-cel) – a first-in-class B-cell maturation antigen-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy – for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least three prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor and an anti-CD38 antibody and have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy.