CGTLive’s Weekly Rewind – July 14, 2023
Review top news and interview highlights from the week ending July 14, 2023.
Welcome to CGTLive™’s Weekly Rewind! We’ve compiled 5 highlights from this week’s coverage of advances in gene and cell therapies, including FDA actions, notable research, and interviews with experts across the field.
1. CRISPR Therapy Shows Proof-of-Concept in Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant E. Coli Infection in Patients With Cancer
The proof-of-concept trial was in healthy volunteers, and additional studies are being planned in patients with blood cancers undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplants.
2. Sung-Yun Pai, MD, on Further Research With Lentiviral Gene Therapy for X-SCID
The senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research discussed unmet needs that remain and further research to be done.
3. HEMO-CAR-T IND Gets Clinical Hold for Manufacturing Issue
Hemogenyx is currently remanufacturing the therapy without the identified splicing issue.
4. Jacob Appelbaum, MD, PhD, on Investigating SC-DARIC33 and IL-15 for AML
The senior research fellow at Fred Hutch Cancer Center discussed research trends at the 2023 ASGCT meeting.
5. RNA Therapy Shows No Benefit for ALS or FTD
Wave Life Sciences is discontinuingdevelopment of WVE-004.
Evaluating Allogeneic CAR-T P-BCMA-ALLO1 in R/R Multiple Myeloma
November 21st 2024Bhagirathbhai R. Dholaria, MD, an associate professor of medicine in malignant hematology & stem cell transplantation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discussed interim data from the phase 1/1b clinical trial evaluating Poseida's CAR-T.
World Pancreatic Cancer Day 2024: Looking Back at Progress in Cell and Gene Therapy
November 21st 2024In observance of World Pancreatic Cancer Day, held on the third Thursday of November each year, we took a look back at the past year's news in cell and gene therapy for pancreatic cancer indications.
