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Remarkable results from CAR-T cell therapy for lupus
A recent study has shown remarkable results from compassionate use of CAR-T cell therapy to treat severe lupus in five patients in whom multiple other treatments had previously failed. CAR-T cell therapy involves genetically engineering T cells, a type of immune cell, so that they respond to a prespecified molecular marker, or antigen. This means they mount an immune response against cells with the chosen antigen...
Kyverna Therapeutics Submits IND for Novel CAR T-Cell Therapy to Treat Lupus Nephritis
Company files its first Investigational New Drug application for its lead program KYV-101, a novel fully human CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, for the treatment of lupus nephritis. Kyverna’s therapeutic platform combines advanced T-cell engineering and synthetic biology technologies to suppress and eliminate...
A report on the state of the cell and gene therapy industry
Twice a year, the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) surveys the cell and gene therapy landscape and ARM’s initiatives to advance the sector and provide an update to their members, their stakeholders, and the public at large. While external conditions ebb and flow, the sector’s progress — in clinical milestones, regulatory developments, and patient impact — steadily advances...
Join Avance Biosciences™ at the Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa Oct 11-13, 2022!
Avance offers a broad range of assay development services, including assay design, assay validation, sample testing, and technology transfer under GLP compliance to support IND-enabling and clinical studies. With decades of experience helping gene and cell therapy companies, Avance Biosciences™ has the...
Join Avance Biosciences™ at Biotech Boston Sept 27-30, 2022!
Ensure the Success of Your Biological Drug Development - Avance Provides Assays to Support your Biopharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing - Avance Biosciences™ is a world-leading CRO specializing in GLP & GMP compliant biological assay development, assay validation, and [...]
Kyverna Therapeutics’ $85 million series B financing reflects significant investor confidence in the science behind cell therapies
Kyverna Therapeutics, a cell therapy company engineering a new class of therapies for serious autoimmune diseases, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $85 million Series B financing round led by Northpond Ventures. Additional investors included the company’s founding [...]