Cerebral palsy is a neurological condition that affects thousands of babies born every year. Damage or malformation of the brain during development, most often in the womb, leads to motor and muscle symptoms. Children with cerebral palsy face a lifelong disability with consequences ranging from being wheelchair bound to painful, tight muscles and joints and even hearing loss, vision loss, cognitive deficits, and many more symptoms and complications that vary by individual. [Read more…]
Cynata Receives Ethics Approval to Commence Clinical Trial in COVID-19 and Clinical Development Update
MELBOURNE, Australia, May 08, 2020 — Cynata Therapeutics Limited (ASX: “CYP”, “Cynata”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company specialising in cell therapeutics, is pleased to announce that it has received ethics committee approval to commence a clinical trial to investigate early efficacy of Cynata’s proprietary Cymerus™ mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in adults admitted to intensive care with COVID-19. In addition, the Company also provides updated guidance on its wider clinical development pipeline. [Read more…]
Fate Therapeutics Gets FDA Clearance of IND Application for World’s First iPSC-derived CAR T-Cell Therapy
FT819 CAR T-cell Product Candidate Derived from Clonal Master iPSC Line with Novel CD19-specific 1XX CAR Integrated into TRAC Locus
Phase 1 Clinical Study will Evaluate FT819 for Patients with Advanced B-cell Leukemias and Lymphomas
SAN DIEGO, July 09, 2020 — Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer and immune disorders, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for FT819, an off-the-shelf allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy targeting CD19+ malignancies.
FT819 is the first-ever CAR T-cell therapy derived from a clonal master induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line, and is engineered with several first-of-kind features designed to improve the safety and efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy. [Read more…]
Vor Biopharma Raises $110M to Develop Engineered Hematopoietic Stem Cells
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Vor Biopharma Closes $110 Million Series B Financing
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Proceeds will advance the company’s lead program into clinical trials and expand the portfolio
July 07, 2020, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Vor Biopharma, an oncology company pioneering engineered hematopoietic stem cells (eHSCs) for the treatment of cancer, today announced it has raised $110 million in a Series B financing. Proceeds will advance the company’s lead candidate VOR33 into clinical trials, deepen its portfolio, and accelerate the validation of additional targets for its scientific platform, which is designed to remove redundant proteins so that transplanted stem cells become invisible to targeted therapies while leaving diseased cells vulnerable. [Read more…]
BioStem Life Sciences Receives Accreditation by The American Association of Tissue Banks® (AATB®)
BioStem Technologies, Inc. (OTC PINK: BSEM) a leading life sciences company specializing in the development and sale of perinatal tissue-based allografts for use in regenerative therapies, today announced that its subsidiary, BioStem Life Sciences has been awarded the prestigious accolade of accreditation by the American Association of Tissue Banks® (AATB®). BioStem Life Sciences is now accredited for Donor Eligibility Assessment, Processing, Storage, and Distribution of Birth Tissue and Cellular Tissue for Transplantation. [Read more…]
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