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Q&A: One scientist’s bold vision to make on-demand treatments routine for life-threatening rare genetic diseases

Broad Institute

Based on a technology developed by Broad Institute core member David Liu’s laboratory, the treatment is the first in a series of new medicines being tested to treat rare diseases by repairing patients’ particular genetic misspellings. Some of these treatments, like K.J.’s, The team that treated K.J. Today, K.J.

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2025 Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to pioneers of CAR T-cell therapy

Broad Institute

The work of June, Levine, Rivire, and Sadelain laid the foundation for a whole new class of treatments. In 2012, the University of Pennsylvania team and Novartis launched a collaboration to further develop the technology, which led to the FDA approval for the first commercial CAR T-cell therapy in 2017.

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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

Codon

In the 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain , Thomas Mann describes a sanatorium patient named Anton Ferge as he undergoes a painful tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Even after microbiologists discovered the bacterium that causes the illness in 1882, it wasn’t until the 1920s that researchers were able to develop a vaccine for TB.

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Levers for Biological Progress

Codon

Amodei also imagines the ways AI could accelerate biological research and yield miraculous cures in the 21st century; everything from the prevention and treatment of nearly all infectious and inherited diseases to the elimination of most cancers. Today, a single injection of an FDA-approved gene therapy, called Hemgenix , cures this disease.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: FDA approves Veklury as first treatment for Covid-19 and Takeda and Moderna bring 50 million vaccines to Japan

The Pharma Data

More recently, the FDA announced regulatory approval for the first treatment for Covid-19. Dive into this week’s update for more details on the actions taken by the FDA in the ongoing response to the Covid-19 pandemic. FDA approves first treatment for Covid-19.

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Pfizer and BioNTech Initiate Rolling Submission of Biologics License Application for U.S. FDA Approval of Their COVID 19 Vaccine

The Pharma Data

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is currently available in the U.S. under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) granted by the FDA on December 11, 2020. Since then, the companies have delivered more than 170 million doses of the vaccine across the U.S. We are pleased to work with U.S. AUTHORIZED USE IN THE U.S.:

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Recon: Pfizer plans COVID vaccine BLA submission this month; Gilead sues Russia over remdesivir comp

The Pharma Data

Pfizer plans to file for full FDA approval of Covid vaccine at the end of this month ( CNBC ). The FDA is set to authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those 12-15 years old by early next week. White House to shift COVID-19 vaccine to states with more need ( Reuters ).

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