Alaric has been covering the biopharma industry and health care for more than 14 years. His areas of focus include clinical trials, drug development in hematology-oncology, cell and gene therapy and the industry's growing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ball State University and previously lived in China for three years.
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The biotech announced positive Phase III data for Orca-T, its allogeneic cell therapy, and a company cofounder talked with Scrip about Orca’s commercialization plans.
The company is developing doravirine and islatravir together as an alternative to therapies containing integrase inhibitors, like Biktarvy, especially as HIV patients age.
The two companies were among those presenting data at CROI that highlighted the next frontiers of competition in the HIV space.
The big pharma will spend $286m to acquire the biotech, which restructured in January 2024 to focus exclusively on their shared product, the CAR-T Abecma.
The company announced early proof-of-concept data for BEAM-302, its base-editing medicine for the genetic liver and lung disease alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, showing a clean safety profile.
The company is building on its existing logistics and manufacturing for the radiopharmaceutical drug ITM-11, which delivered positive Phase III data.