Featured Story | By Nick Paul Taylor Adicet Bio has laid down a marker for the nascent gamma delta CAR-T cell therapy space, reporting its off-the-shelf candidate ADI-001 triggered responses in a small clinical trial of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Shares in Adicet jumped 45% to above $14 in premarket trading. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor Aeglea BioTherapeutics found itself in an unusual position going into the readout from its pivotal rare disease clinical trial. With Aeglea expected to meet its primary endpoint, investors were focused on whether it could show clinical improvement of a secondary measure—and were swift to punish the stock when it fell short of expectations. read more By Kyle LaHucik The biotech industry is "getting there" in terms of advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion, but it's an effort that remains in the early innings. Fierce Biotech spoke with more than 20 LGBTQ+ leaders in biopharma to learn where the industry stands on incorporating the LGBTQ+ community into its diversity and inclusion work. read more By Ben Adams Biohaven is eyeing filing for approval early next year for its experimental pain spray after new data showed it hit its primary endpoints in a phase 3 test. read more By Kyle LaHucik Goldfinch Bio hopes a 13-year Ardelyx veteran can help it advance mid-stage and early-phase kidney disease drugs. Jeff Jacobs joins the Gilead-partnered biotech after helping Ardelyx get its own kidney disease drug approved in autumn 2019, but the company has been mired by a recent rejection for the same drug and mass layoffs. read more By Andrea Park In the course of its combination with special purpose acquisition company Odyssey—which went public in a 300 million euro IPO of its own earlier this year—BenevolentAI will rake in up to 390 million euro in net proceeds. read more By Angus Liu AstraZeneca recently bundled its COVID-19 vaccine and antibody treatment into a separate division. But there’s a chance that the new unit might not stay with the British drugmaker for long, as the firm is reportedly considering various options including a potential spinoff, Bloomberg reported. read more By Kyle LaHucik Clinical trials had more Black patients in the past decade, but studies of investigational drugs continued to underrepresent patients from Asian, Latino, Hispanic and Native American backgrounds. Clinical development data provider Phesi analyzed trials that began in the past decade, sifting through data on 1.3 million U.S. patients. read more By Angus Liu CAR-T cells to treat cancer have precious little time to proliferate in the body, which often limits their anti-tumor efficacy. A team at the Curie Institute pinpointed the protein SOCS1 as an inhibitor of CAR-T expansion and survival and suggested it could be targeted to improve T-cell therapies. read more | 
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