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Vertex Ends One Type 1 Diabetes Cell Therapy, Shifts Focus To Another

 
• By Joseph Haas

Seeking cell therapy approaches to cure type 1 diabetes, Vertex abandons a candidate encapsulated to avoid immune system detection but hopes to file another candidate for approval in 2026.

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Vertex continues its stem cell-based approach to type 1 diabetes

Vertex remains bullish on prospects for developing curative, endogenous insulin-sparing cell therapies for type 1 diabetes, despite disappointing results unveiled on 28 March that led the Boston-based firm to end development of VX-264, an encapsulated formulation of pancreatic islet stem cells designed to avoid detection by a patient’s immune system.

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