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CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to CTX-001, an investigational, autologous, Gene Editing hematopoietic stem cell therapy, for the treatment of severe Transfusion-Dependent β-Thalassaemia (TDT) and Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). As with the FDA’s breakthrough ...

  On 30 April 2020, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion, recommending the granting of a marketing authorisation for the medicinal product REBLOZYL, intended for the treatment of adults with beta-thalassaemia or transfusion-dependent anaemia associated with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The applicant for this medicinal product is Celgene Europe BV. ...

The first UK vaccine candidate to prevent coronavirus infection is set to begin clinical testing in human volunteers  today. Its developers at the University of Oxford hope to have 1m vaccine doses ready by September to carry out large-scale clinical trials during the autumn and, if all goes well, to ...

FT-4202, a potential disease-modifying oral treatment for sickle cell disease being developed by Forma Therapeutics, has been given fast track and rare pediatric disease designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A fast track status is meant to accelerate the development and review of the treatment, facilitating discussions with the FDA and enabling the therapy ...