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Immatics Off To Phase III With IMA203 After Positive Melanoma Results

The TCR therapy showed strong efficacy and durability in patients with previously treated melanoma. A Phase III pivotal trial is due to start in December.

Manufacturers Eye Challenges Of Broadening Cell And Gene Therapy Access

With more advanced therapies gaining approval, companies at ARM’s Cell and Gene Meeting on the Mesa considered hurdles to making their products more broadly available and developing them for larger indications.

BMS Inserts Cash Into Prime Medicine’s Gene-Editing Ambitions

An upfront payment of $110m from BMS has come just in time for Prime Medicine, but its real test will be the first Phase I data, expected early next year.

J&J/Legend’s Carvykti Further Cements Myeloma Lead With OS Benefit

New data from CARTITUDE-4 show a survival benefit in patients with lenalidomide-refractory patients as early as the second line, along with Carvykti being studied for frontline use.

2seventy/BMS Halt Abecma Maintenance Trial As Landscape Evolves

The companies said they would stop enrollment in the KarMMa-9 trial of Abecma/lenalidomide due to how the treatment paradigm has shifted since the study started.

ESMO 24: Investors Are Starting To Believe In BioNTech’s Cancer Drugs

The company’s investment in oncology is starting to pay off, with its PD-L1/VEGF inhibitor BNT324 generating particular interest at ESMO.

How The EU, US & Brazil Are Shaping Decentralized Manufacturing For ATMPs

Regulators in Europe and the US have demonstrated a commitment to providing guidance that will make decentralized and point-of-care manufacturing a reality, the CSO of GermFree, a company that provides mobile and modular cleanrooms for manufacturing advanced therapies, tells the Pink Sheet.

Quick Listen: Scrip's Five Must-Know Things

In this week's podcast edition of Five Must-Know Things: summer ADC dealmaking continues apace; a look at cell therapies in Japan; Pfizer’s new US digital consumer platform; Galapagos’s US point of care CAR-T study; and Novartis partners with Lindy on biologics delivery.

Progress Or Hype? Looking At A Decade Of Cell Therapy In Japan

After 10 years of promised investment following its Nobel Prize for iPS cell research, Japan is cautiously narrowing regulations around the conditional approval of cell therapies and cutting reimbursement prices. How has the sector panned out over the last decade?

Progress Or Hype? A Decade Of Cell Therapy In Japan

After 10 years of promised investment following its Nobel Prize for iPS cell research, Japan is cautiously narrowing regulations around the conditional approval of cell therapies and cutting some reimbursement prices. Commercial success remains mixed and some products have been withdrawn from the market.