Eli Lilly completes $1.04bn acquisition of Prevail Therapeutics to expand gene therapy program

pharmanewsdaily- January 23, 2021 0

Eli Lilly and Company has officially finalized its acquisition of Prevail Therapeutics in a deal valued at up to $1.04 billion. This acquisition represents a ... Read More

Eli Lilly to acquire Prevail Therapeutics for $1.04bn, expanding gene therapy pipeline

pharmanewsdaily- December 16, 2020 0

Eli Lilly and Company has signed a deal worth up to $1.04 billion to acquire Prevail Therapeutics, a prominent US gene therapy company specializing in ... Read More

Janssen acquires HMR59 from Hemera for geographic atrophy treatment

pharmanewsdaily- December 3, 2020 0

Janssen Pharmaceuticals has secured the rights to an innovative gene therapy, HMR59, for the treatment of geographic atrophy, a severe form of age-related macular degeneration ... Read More

Gene therapy company 4D Molecular Therapeutics raises $70m in Series C round

pharmanewsdaily- June 17, 2020 0

California-based gene therapy company 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT), which is focused on adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy vector discovery and product development, has raised $70 ... Read More

Roche signs $2.85bn deal with Sarepta for SRP-9001 DND gene therapy

pharmanewsdaily- December 24, 2019 0

Roche has signed a licensing deal worth up to $2.85 billion with Sarepta Therapeutics for the exclusive ex-US commercial rights to the latter’s SRP-9001 (AAVrh74.MHCK7.micro-dystrophin), ... Read More

Astellas Pharma to acquire US gene therapy company Audentes Therapeutics

pharmanewsdaily- December 8, 2019 0

Astellas acquisition of Audentes: Japanese pharma company Astellas Pharma has agreed to acquire US gene therapy company Audentes Therapeutics in an all-cash deal worth about ... Read More

Ferring, Blackstone invest $570m in nadofaragene firadenovec gene therapy

pharmanewsdaily- November 26, 2019 0

Ferring Pharmaceuticals, a Swiss specialty biopharmaceutical group, has teamed up with private investment platform Blackstone Life Sciences to jointly invest more than $570 million in ... Read More

Cellectis begins MELANI-01 clinical trial for UCARTCS1 in multiple myeloma

pharmanewsdaily- October 30, 2019 0

Cellectis said that it has dosed the first patient in a phase 1  study - the MELANI-01 clinical trial to evaluate UCARTCS1, an allogeneic off-the-shelf ... Read More

Avrobio gets FDA orphan status for AVR-RD-02 in Gaucher disease

pharmanewsdaily- October 25, 2019 0

US gene therapy company Avrobio has secured orphan-drug designation for AVR-RD-02, its investigational gene therapy, for the treatment of Gaucher disease, from the US Food ... Read More

4D Molecular Therapeutics secures $90m in Series B to advance gene therapy innovations

pharmanewsdaily- September 6, 2018 0

California-based 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT), specializing in adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy vector discovery and product development, has successfully raised $90 million through a Series ... Read More