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Expanding Broader Patient Access to CGTs

By Pearl Steinzor

April 30th 2025

Key trends and challenges are shaping the next era of advanced therapies, from FDA momentum to broader patient access.

At 6 months, 81% of wounds showed 50% or more healing vs 16% of 43 matched control wounds treated with standard of care in the VIITAL study. | Image credit: wladimir1804 - stock.adobe.com

FDA Approves Prademagene Zamikeracel for Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

By Rose McNulty

April 29th 2025

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Consensus Guidelines Aim to Optimize DMD Gene Therapy Delivery

By Rose McNulty

April 18th 2025

Real-world data suggest delandistrogene moxeparvovec is well-tolerated and effective in patients with DMD. | Image credit: natali_mis - stock.adobe.com

Real-World Study Suggests DMD Gene Therapy Is Safe, Effective

By Rose McNulty

March 26th 2025

Delandistrogene moxeparvovec is an adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapy approved for the treatment of DMD. Image credit: natali_mis - stock.adobe.com

Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec Shows Long-Term Impacts at 3 and 5 Years in DMD

By Rose McNulty

March 21st 2025

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March 14th 2024

Experts Issue Call for Reform to DMD Drug Pricing, Trial Approval Process

Since 2016, 5 targeted treatments have received accelerated approval from the FDA for use in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and the total spend for just 3 of them is $3.1 billion.

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March 7th 2024

Addressing CAR T Challenges: Enhancing Collaboration for Patient Care

Knowledge gaps persist in awareness of and education on the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for hematologic malignancies, especially multiple myeloma and lymphoma.

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February 29th 2024

Optimizing CAR T for Patients With BCL and CNS Involvement

With little data available on outcomes among patients who have B-cell lymphoma (BCL) and secondary central nervous system (CNS) involvement who were administered CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, these investigators enrolled 4 male patients in their study.

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February 22nd 2024

Identifying Patients at High Risk of Myeloid Neoplasms After CAR T: Implications for Care, Surveillance

For chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies (CAR T) approved to treat B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders and multiple myeloma, more data are needed on the effects of posttreatment myeloid neoplasms to optimize patient counseling, risk stratification, and surveillance.

When Choosing Between Bispecifics and CAR T, the Best Therapy May Be What Is Accessible

February 15th 2024

When Choosing Between Bispecifics and CAR T, the Best Therapy May Be What Is Accessible

Coverage from the session, "Which Comes First? Bispecifics, CAR T-Cell Therapy, and Cost Consideration in Sequencing,” at Patient-Centered Oncology Care 2023.

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February 15th 2024

In Adolescents With Obesity, FMT Shows No Negative Impact on Horizontal Gene Transfer

For this analysis, investigators used metagenomic sequencing files from the Gut Bugs trial, a placebo-controlled multidonor fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) trial conducted among adolescents classified as obese.

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February 5th 2024

Pre-, Postinfusion Protocol Recommendations for Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec Use in DMD

The gene therapy delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl, also known as Elevidys (Sarepta Therapeutics) is indicated to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in ambulatory patients aged 4 to 5 years, and Sarepta recently filed supplemental data with the FDA seeking to expand the labeled indication.

January 31st 2024

What We’re Reading: Sickle Cell Treatment Access; Patent Thicket Attacks; US Syphilis Cases Rise

Sickle cell disease (SCD) will be the first focus of the Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Access Model; the FTC has challenged the validity of over 100 drug product patents to help increase competition and potentially lower prices; the rate of infectious syphilis cases in the US rose 9% in 2022.

January 24th 2024

What We’re Reading: Phase 3 Gene Therapy Trial; COVID Infection Surge; Patients Maintain Anti-Obesity Drug Weight Loss

Sarepta Therapeutics has started screening participants for a Phase 3 clinical trial to test its gene therapy candidate SRP-9003 in children with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2E; wastewater testing points to a new COVID-19 infection wave fueled by the JN.1 variant; most patients on anti-obesity medications kept at least some weight off up to a year after they stopped taking them.

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January 22nd 2024

Analysis Explores Gene Therapy’s Potential to Be Cost-Effective in SCD

This new economic valuation of the societal and health care benefits of gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease (SCD) concludes the highly personalized treatment has potential to be cost effective if priced below $2 million.

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January 16th 2024

Pfizer’s Hemophilia B Gene Therapy Approved as Beqvez in Canada

Victoria Johnson

The FDA and the European Medicines Agency have accepted marketing authorization applications and decisions are pending.

Updated Data for Odronextamab Show Durable Responses in R/R DLBCL, 73% Complete Response in R/R Follicular Lymphoma

January 8th 2024

Updated Data for Odronextamab Show Durable Responses in R/R DLBCL, 73% Complete Response in R/R Follicular Lymphoma

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January 5th 2024

Sarepta Therapeutics Seeks to Expand Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec Indications

Delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl (Elevidys; Sarepta Therapeutics) is currently approved to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 4- and 5-year-old patients who have a confirmed DMD gene mutation.

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December 29th 2023

Descriptions of Physical Limitations, Symptoms of DMD From the Patient, Caregiver Perspective

Skylar Jeremias

A recent study encapsulates how patients and caregivers characterize the impact of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) on patients’ physical limitations and symptom burden, potentially helping to inform patient-centered strategies for assessing clinical outcomes in DMD research.

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December 23rd 2023

Excision Bio Seeks to Suppress HIV Replication With CRISPR Gene Therapy

Victoria Johnson

Excision BioTherapeutics has so far released positive safety data from the first 3 participants living with HIV-1, with no evidence of vector shedding in sexual organ tissue.

ICYMI: AMCP Nexus Conference Highlights

December 19th 2023

ICYMI: AMCP Nexus Conference Highlights

From the 2023 Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Nexus meeting, held in October, expert interviews and insightful updates on the Inflation Reduction Act, gene therapy affordability and access, and the 340B Drug Pricing Program comprise the conference highlights.

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December 15th 2023

Gene Therapy for Mucopolysaccharidoses Type IIIB Requires More Testing, Research

Also known as Sanfilippo syndrome, this rare genetic syndrome has no known cures and what current treatment options are available are expensive and limited in supply.

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December 10th 2023

FDA Approves bluebird bio's Lovo-Cel Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

The decision was supported by efficacy data from 36 patients from the ongoing phase 1/2 HGB-206 trial (NCT02140554) and 2 patients in the phase 3 HGB-210 trial (NCT04293185). It was the second approval from FDA for a gene therapy for sickle cell disease.

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December 3rd 2023

NK Cell Therapy SNK01 Improves Cognitive Function in Alzheimer Disease for up to 11 Weeks

Noah Stansfield

Among 10 patients evaluated, compared with their baseline at 1 week after receiving their final dose in the trial, 30% demonstrated clinical improvement on the Alzheimer’s disease composite score.

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November 27th 2023

Gene Therapy Success in UK Likely Depends on Overcoming Education, Psychological Support Challenges

Education, psychological support, and implementation guidance are the top unmet needs identified by investigators from the United Kingdom concerning gene therapy use for hemophilia.

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November 22nd 2023

EMBARK Data Support Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec for DMD Across All Study End Points

Over a 52-week treatment period, the gene therapy demonstrated robust evidence for a clinically meaningful benefit, including across several prespecified functional secondary end points vs placebo.

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November 17th 2023

Data on Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec Can Inform Future Gene Therapies

The FDA approved delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl (Elevidys, Sarepta Therapeutics) in June to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy in ambulatory pediatric patients aged 4 through 5 who have a confirmed DMD gene mutation.

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November 9th 2023

High-Cost Gene Therapies Present Reimbursement, Access Challenges

Investigators propose potential payment models for gene therapies that consider equitable patient access and payer reimbursement.

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November 4th 2023

Gene Therapy Improves Auditory Response for Child With Profound Genetic Hearing Loss

A child with profound genetic hearing loss was dosed with the investigational otoferlin gene therapy (DB-OTO), becoming the first patient dosed in a phase 1/2 trial evaluating the treatment, and experienced improved auditory response at week 6 with no concerning safety signals.

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November 2nd 2023

Despite Risk, Patients With SCD Hopeful About Gene Therapies

Sickle cell disease (SCD) has known complications that include organ damage and failure, rhabdomyolysis, glaucoma, splenic sequestration, and vaso-occlusive crises. At present, the only potential cure is a bone marrow transplant, but it can be difficult to find a donor and there is a high rejection risk.

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October 25th 2023

Success of Gene Therapy Relies on Integration Location in DNA

Laura Joszt, MA

The location of integration of a gene therapy has been crucial for the safety and efficacy of the treatment to cure infants with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.

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October 19th 2023

Case Report of Patient Death Following High-Dose Gene Therapy for DMD

In this case study, a patient who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and received high-dose transgene therapy to upregulate cortical dystrophin subsequently developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and died.

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October 13th 2023

Taysha Doses Second Patient With Rett Syndrome With TSHA-102, per IDMC Recommendation

Noah Stansfield

Both the second and first patients dosed in the study received the lower of the 2 doses of the gene therapy that Taysha Gene Therapies is evaluating in the phase 1/2 REVEAL trial.

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October 9th 2023

Avidity Biosciences Gains FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Patients With DMD

Sarah Boyce, president and CEO at Avidity Biosciences, discusses her leading role at the company, as well as antibody oligonucleotide conjugate drug, AOC 1044, currently in development for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) with mutations amenable to exon 44 skipping (DMD44).

October 7th 2023

New FDA Pilot Program Will Provide Hands-On Regulatory Guidance for Cell and Gene Therapy Trials in Rare Disease

Noah Stansfield

The program will initially allow 6 sponsors of clinical trials to participate and will provide sponsors with the opportunity for frequent advice and regular communication regarding clinical trial design and other development issues.

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