A biotech reckoning: 'We've lost our luster in cell therapies'
A Special Report from the Fierce Biotech team on the state of cell therapy.
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A Special Report from the Fierce Biotech team on the state of cell therapy.
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. beats earnings expectations. Reported EPS is $-1.2, expectations were $-1.31. PTC Therapeutics, Inc.
The company’s stock fell by more than 40 percent Friday after the approval of Lyfgenia, the release of its pricing, and comparison to a less expensive gene-edited drug approved the same day.
The first gene therapies for sickle cell disease are now approved: Casgevy from Vertex Pharmaceuticals Casgevy and Lyfgenia from Bluebird Bio. Despite the same-day approval, key differences give one of these therapies commercialization advantages over the other.
Novartis gains global rights to Legend Biotech cell therapies that address DLL3, a promising target for lung cancers and other types of solid tumors. The pharmaceutical giant may make these therapies using T-Charge, its next-generation CAR T-cell therapy manufacturing technology.