Keyword: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Pooling their technologies, Editas will work on cancer treatments and BlueRock will focus on neurology, cardiology and immunology.
FDA chief Scott Gottlieb steps down; Gilead loses oncology leader; Deciphera CEO to retire; and DBV loses two executives ahead of peanut drug refile.
Merck licensed the drugs for $230 million upfront two years ago but has now granted Vertex the right to use them in certain gene-editing applications.
GSK chairman bows out; Editas CEO signs off; Roche dispatches exec to take over Genentech; and Vertex fires COO for code of conduct violation.
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Thursday, January 31, 2019
The clinical data team at Vertex asked themselves, how can we reduce our development timelines and costs—make things go faster, for less?
Symdeko doesn’t require specific blood-pressure monitoring, nor does it carry a warning about respiratory events, as Vertex's older treatment Orkambi does.
After a year's delay, Editas Medicine will start enrolling patients in a phase 1/2 trial of its CRISPR-based treatment for LCA10, a rare form of blindness.
The lack of efficacy seen in the phase 2b is another, potentially terminal, blow to the prospects of the Rho inhibitor.
The FDA lifted a clinical hold it placed on Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics’ gene-edited stem cell therapy for sickle cell disease.
Inscripta aims to broaden access to CRISPR by offering new enzymes for free, and to boost R&D by outfitting scientists with a full suite of tools.
