CGTLive®’s Weekly Rewind – November 29, 2024
Review top news and interview highlights from the week ending November 29, 2024.
CGTLive®’s Weekly Rewind
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. Genethon’s Gene Therapy GNT0004 Stabilizes or Improves Motor Functions in Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
All 3 patients who received the high dose showed stabilization of motor function, as assessed by the 34-point North Star Ambulatory Assessment.
2. Exploring CAR-T for Autoimmune Disease
Georg Schett, MD, vice president research and chair of internal medicine at the University of Erlangen – Nuremberg, discussed findings from 2 early studies of CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.
3. FDA Approves StemCyte’s Cord Blood Cell Therapy Regenecyte for Unrelated Donor Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation Procedures
The FDA’s decision was based on data from 3 different sources.
4. Future Trends for Genomic Medicines
David Barrett, JD, the chief executive officer of ASGCT, discussed likely future trends extrapolated from the organization’s Q3 Landscape Report.
5. Cabaletta Bio’s CAR-T CABA-201 Effects Clinical Responses in Autoimmune Diseases
Clinical responses were reported in patients with lupus, myositis, and systemic sclerosis.
Transplant Eligibility Versus CAR-T Eligibility
January 16th 2025Manali Kamdar, MD, the associate professor of medicine–hematology and clinical director of lymphoma services at the University of Colorado, discussed the importance of referring patients with r/r LBCL who are transplant ineligible for CAR-T treatment.
