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Posted on: 13 October 2021, source: FDA
This guidance provides FDA’s current thinking on determining sameness of human gene therapy products under FDA’s orphan drug regulations for the purpose of orphan-drug designation and orphan-drug exclusivity.

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Posted on: 19 September 2021, source: genengnews.com
Astellas Pharma has acknowledged that a fourth boy has died in the troubled Phase I/II trial through which its Astellas Gene Therapies (formerly Audentes Therapeutics) has been evaluating its adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy candidate AT132 in patients with X-linked Myotubular Myopathy (XLMTM). Unlike the other three boys who all died last year in the Phase I/II ASPIRO trial (NCT03199469), the fourth—whose age has not been disclosed—received the lower dose of 1.3×10e14 vg/kg.

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Posted on: 13 September 2021, source: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Genetic muscle diseases lead to progressive muscle wasting and often early death, with few treatment options and no cure. Some gene therapies that use a harmless virus to deliver a functioning copy of a disease-causing gene to cells have shown promise in clinical trials for a subset of muscular dystrophies, but have faced challenges. High doses of the gene-carrying virus are needed to reach the muscles throughout the body and the viruses used in these trials often end up in the liver more than in the muscle. This has led to high levels of the virus in the liver, severe adverse side effects, and even death in some trial participants. Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University have developed a new family of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) - the gene-delivering workhorse of gene therapy - that improve targeting of the muscle tissue, which could be safer and more effective for patients with muscle disease.

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Posted on: 30 August 2021, source: BioPharma Dive
Lysogene (FR0013233475 – LYS) (Paris:LYS), a phase 3 gene therapy platform company targeting central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced dosing of the first patient in the United States with LYS-GM101 investigational gene therapy at CHOC Hospital (CHOC) in a global adaptative-design clinical trial (NCT04273269) for the treatment of GM1 gangliosidosis. This trial is an interventional, multi-center, single-arm, two-stage adaptive-design study evaluating the intracisternal delivery of a recombinant adeno-associated virus vector serotype rh.10 (AAVrh.10) carrying the human β-galactosidase gene (GBL1). The clinical trial includes a safety phase and a confirmatory efficacy phase. The trial will enroll 16 patients with a diagnosis of early or late infantile GM1 gangliosidosis at sites in the US and Europe.

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Posted on: 10 August 2021, source: BioPharma Dive
Novartis on Tuesday said it will begin a new study of its gene therapy Zolgensma in older patients with spinal muscular atrophy following the Food and Drug Administration's clearance of administration via a spinal infusion. The regulator had suspended testing of that dosing in October 2019 due to safety concerns.

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Posted on: 16 July 2021, source: FierceBiotech
Scientists from Ohio State University have developed a novel method for delivering gene therapy to specific regions of the brain. Now, they have evidence from a small clinical trial in children that the treatment could address a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disease. And they believe their technique could eventually be used to treat more common brain diseases, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The Ohio State team developed the gene therapy to treat aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, which hampers the body’s ability to make dopamine and serotonin and results in developmental delays and a range of motor and behavioral symptoms. The gene therapy uses a viral vector to carry DNA-expressing AADC to the brain.

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Posted on: 23 June 2021, source: BioPharma Dive
One year after receiving an experimental gene therapy developed by the Dutch drugmaker UniQure, patients with hemophilia B aren't having nearly as many bleeding issues as they used to have. In hemophilia, genetic mutations prevent the body from making proteins needed to clot blood. People with the less common, "B" form of the disorder are missing a protein known as Factor IX. UniQure's medicine is meant to provide a working version of the gene so patients can generate their own clotting protein, and rely less — or ideally, not at all — on so-called replacement factor treatments.

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