Novartis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted crizanlizumab (SEG101) Breakthrough Therapy designation for the prevention of vaso-occlusive crises in patients of all genotypes with sickle cell disease.
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Magenta Therapeutics is teaming up with Ladenburg, Germany-based Heidelberg Pharma GmbH to improve curative bone marrow transplantation.