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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.

Picture: SynaptixBio

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

Obesity candidate CT-388, which Genentech added to Roche’s pipeline with the acquisition of Carmot Therapeutics, is at least not a disappointment, according to new trial data.

In future, gene vectors for novel gene therapies will be developed and produced for clinical trials on an industrial scale by around 100 employees in the new gene therapy development centre at Roche in Penzberg, which covers around 2,500 square metres. © Roche

Basel-headquartered Roche AG has inaugurated a brand new €90m gene therapy development centre in Penzberg near Munich.

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Multi-omics liquid biospy specialist Freenome Inc. has baged US$254m in a financing round led by Roche AG to fund early cancer detection in 6,200 patients using its AI-guided cancer detection platform.