Helocyte, Inc. Announces Positive Data from Stem Cell Transplant Donor Vaccination Trial to be Presented at the 2023 Tandem Meetings: Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR
MIAMI, Feb. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Helocyte, Inc., (“Helocyte”) a subsidiary company of Fortress Biotech, Inc. (Nasdaq: FBIO), announced today that data from a Phase 1 pilot trial (see NCT03560752) evaluating the potential safety, immunological response and efficacy of the cytomegalovirus (“CMV”) vaccine Triplex to enhance CMV protective immunity in immunosuppressed recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic […]
Cell BioEngines Enters into an Exclusive Worldwide Agreement to Develop and Commercialize Potent Immune Cell States to Cure Cancer
BOSTON and NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cell BioEngines Inc. (the “Company”), a cell and gene therapy company focused on developing an allogenic cell-based product for solid tumors, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (“Icahn Mount Sinai”), in New […]
ImmPACT Bio Announces FDA Clearance of IND for Novel Bispecific CAR to Treat Aggressive B-cell Lymphoma
WEST HILLS, Calif., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — ImmPACT Bio USA, Inc. (“ImmPACT Bio”), a clinical-stage company developing transformative logic-gate-based chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for treating cancer, today announced clearance of its first Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IMPT-314, a bispecific “OR-Gate” autologous CAR T-cell therapy targeting the B-cell […]
First US leukemia patient dosed with Smart Immune’s investigational SMART101 cell therapy
Smart Immune SAS, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing ProTcell, a thymus-empowered T-cell therapy platform to fully and rapidly re-arm the immune system, announced today that the first adult leukemia patient has been dosed with SMART101, a T-cell progenitor cell injection derived from donor stem cells using ProTcell at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). The Phase […]
Updated Invectys and CTMC announce FDA clearance of IND application for anti-HLA-G CAR-T cell therapy
HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Invectys, Inc. and CTMC, a joint venture between MD Anderson Cancer Center and National Resilience, Inc., today announced Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a Phase 1/2a clinical study of IVS-3001, Invectys’s lead engineered human leukocyte antigen A (HLA-G) targeting chimeric antigen […]
Fate Therapeutics Features Multiple Novel Approaches to Eliminate Conditioning Chemotherapy for Off-the-shelf, iPSC-derived Cell Therapies at 2022 ASH Annual Meeting
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for patients with cancer, presented preclinical data of several novel strategies designed to enable administration of off-the-shelf cell-based cancer immunotherapies without conditioning chemotherapy at the 64th American Society of Hematology […]
IN8bio Announces FDA Clearance to Initiate a Phase 2 Clinical Trial of INB-400 Gamma-Delta T Cells for Glioblastoma
NEW YORK, Dec. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IN8bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: INAB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative gamma-delta T cell therapies, today announced that it has received clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial of a genetically modified […]
Distinguished Cancer and Stem Cell Biologist Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D., Appointed Chair of Cell Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
BRONX, N.Y., Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally recognized leader in cancer and stem cell biology, has been named the chair of the department of cell biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Steidl assumes his new position as Arthur Skoultchi, Ph.D., who has led the department with distinction for 24 years, steps down from […]
What makes a stem cell a stem cell and how does it go bad?
Dr. John Dick was awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award 2022 “For the discovery and characterization of leukemic stem cells, providing insights into the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.” He presented his award-winning research at the 2022 Gairdner Science Week Laureate Lectures.
Grant Awarded to Develop Genetically Engineered Stem Cell Products to Fight Gastroesophageal Cancer
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The DeGregorio Family Foundation with support from the Torrey Coast Foundation Gastro Esophageal Investigator Network Initiative (GEMINI) has awarded $250,000 to Saar Gill, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, to improve immunotherapy in gastroesophageal cancer by using the tools of genetic engineering to modify human blood-forming stem cells to produce highly specialized cancer-eating cells called […]