Ferring bags Adstiladrin FDA approval in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Ferring bags Adstiladrin FDA approval in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Swiss biopharmaceutical company Ferring Pharmaceuticals has received approval for its Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg) gene therapy from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of a type of bladder cancer in adult patients. Adstiladrin, which is an adenovirus vector-based gene therapy, is indicated for treating high-risk, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) […]

Aura Biosciences begins dosing in belzupacap sarotalocan phase 1 trial in NMIBC

Aura Biosciences begins dosing in belzupacap sarotalocan phase 1 trial in NMIBC

Aura Biosciences said that it has dosed the first patient in a phase 1 clinical trial of its first virus-like drug conjugate (VDC) — belzupacap sarotalocan for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). According to the NASDAQ-listed clinical-stage biotech company, the early-stage multi-center, open label study is likely to take in nearly 23 […]

Aura Biosciences gets FDA fast track status for belzupacap sarotalocan

Aura Biosciences gets FDA fast track status for belzupacap sarotalocan

Aura Biosciences has secured fast track designation for belzupacap sarotalocan (AU-011) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Belzupacap sarotalocan is the first virus-like drug conjugate (VDC) being developed by the American biotech company for various oncology indications. Dr. Mark De Rosch — Aura Biosciences […]

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

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

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 nadofaragene firadenovec (rAd-IFN/Syn3), an investigational gene therapy. Currently, nadofaragene firadenovec is in late-stage development for the treatment of patients with high-grade, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) unresponsive, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). […]

Vaxiion begins VAX014 phase 1 trial in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Vaxiion begins VAX014 phase 1 trial in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Vaxiion Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech company based in California, has initiated a phase 1 clinical trial of its recombinant bacterial minicell-based oncolytic immunotherapy VAX014 for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). The development comes following the conclusion of a 30-day review of the investigational new drug application (IND) of VAX014 by the […]