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Swiss Noema Pharma AG has cashed in a CHF27m extention to its Series B financing that is used to advance four Phase II programmes in neurology.

Genentech, the US arm of Swiss-based Roche AG, plans to acquire its long-time partner in allogeneic CAR-T blood cancer and gene therapies, Poseida Therapeutics Inc, for up to US$1.5bn.

After meeting the primary endpoints of a pivotal Phase II trial, UK-based Adaptimmune Ltd. is submitting an FDA Biologics License Application for its autologous T-cell receptor therapy (TCR-T) Lete-cel (letetresgene autoleucel).

French Innate Pharma SA announced the appointment of Jonathan Dickinson as the Company’s newChief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Executive Board. He succeeds Hervé Brailly, co-founder of the Company, who was interim CEO, during the search process.

Italian obesity gene therapy developer Resalis Therapeutics srl has gained an equity investment from French pharma major Sanofi SA sufficient to finance its miRNA-22 antisense blocker RES-010 through Phase II proof-of-concept.

Swiss HAYA Therapeutics SA has inked a US$1bn biobuck deal with pharma giant Eli Lilly to discover new lncRNA targets in obesity and related metabolic conditions.

Roche’s fenebrutinib demonstrated near-complete suppression of disease activity and disability progression after one year in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis

After Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. presented an epigenetic ZFN-based repressor at ASGCT 2024 that reduces the expression of the tau protein in the hippocampus by 95% in Alzheimer’s models, Roche’s US subsidiary Genentech has licensed the experimental gene therapy.

The US Food & Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Adaptimmune’s Tecelra as the world’s first therapy with genetically engineered T cells to fight a solid tumour.

 At the end of May, Dr Uwe Meya took over as Chief Medical Officer at Oxford-based SynaptixBio.