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DEINOVE (Euronext Growth Paris: ALDEI), a French biotech company, pioneer in the exploration and exploitation of bacterial biodiversity to address the urgent, global challenge of antibiotic resistance, informs its shareholders that the Extraordinary General Meeting (AGE) held on October 17, 2022 has followed the recommendations of the Board of Directors, and adopted all the resolutions that the Board was favorable to, i.e. 10 out of the 11 resolutions.

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Codexis, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDXS), a leading enzyme engineering company enabling the promise of synthetic biology, today announced that it will report its financial results for the third quarter of 2022 on Thursday, November 3, 2022, following the close of market. Codexis management will host a conference call and webcast at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company’s financial results and provide a business update.

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EDISON, N.J., Oct. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hepion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:HEPA), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)-driven therapeutic drug development for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (“NASH”), hepatocellular carcinoma (“HCC”), and other fibrotic diseases, today announced that the peer-reviewed journal, Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development, has published the results of a clinical trial examining the effect of food on the oral bioavailability of rencofilstat, the Company’s lead drug candidate.

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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Travere Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TVTX) today announced it will report third quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, October 27, 2022, after the close of the U.S. financial markets. The Company will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the financial results and provide a general business update at 4:30 p.m. ET.

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– New and Updated Preclinical Data Highlight Potential of GSPT1-directed Molecular Glue Degrader (MGD) MRT-2359 in the Treatment of MYC-driven Cancers –

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BORDEAUX, France, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --TreeFrog Therapeutics,a biotechnology company developing stem cell-derived therapies in regenerative medicine and immuno-oncology based on the biomimetic C-Stemtechnology platform, and Invetech, a global leader in the development and production ofautomated manufacturing solutionsfor cell and advanced therapies, today announced the delivery of a GMP-grade cell encapsulation device using the C-Stemtechnology. The machine will be transferred in 2023 to a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) to produce TreeFrog's cell therapy candidate for Parkinson's disease, with the aim of a first-in-human trial in 2024.Over 2023, Invetech will deliver three additional GMP encapsulation devices to support TreeFrog's in-house and partnered cell therapy programs in regenerative medicine and immuno-oncology.

TreeFrogs C-Stem technology generates alginate capsules seeded with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) at very high speed. Engineered to mimic the in vivo stem cell niche, the capsules allow iPSCs to grow exponentially in 3D, and to differentiate into ready-to-transplant functional microtissues.

Blending microfluidics and stem cell biology, TreeFrog's C-Stemtechnology generates alginate capsules seeded with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) at very high speed. Engineered to mimic the in vivo stem cell niche, the capsules allow iPSCs to grow exponentially in 3D, and to differentiate into ready-to-transplant functional microtissues. And because alginate is both porous and highly resistant, encapsulated iPSCs can be expanded and differentiated in large-scale bioreactors without suffering from impeller-induced shear stress.

"TreeFrog Therapeutics introduces a breakthrough technology for cell therapy, which impacts scale, quality, as well as the efficacy and safety potential of cellular products. Automating this disruptive technology and turning it into a robust GMP-grade instrument is a tremendous achievement for our team. This deliverable is the result of a very fruitful and demanding collaboration with TreeFrog's engineers in biophysics and bioproduction over the past four years. We're now eager to learn how the neural microtissues produced with C-Stemwill perform in the clinic." Anthony Annibale, Global VP Commercial at Invetech.

Started in 2019, the collaboration between TreeFrog and Invetech led to the delivery of a prototype in October 2020. With this research-grade machine, TreeFrog demonstrated the scalability of C-Stem, moving within six months from milliliter-scale to 10-liter bioreactors. In June 2021, the company announced the production of two single-batches of 15 billion iPSCs in 10L bioreactors with an unprecedented 275-fold amplification per week, striking reproducibility and best-in-class cell quality. The new GMP-grade device delivered by Invetech features the same technical specifications. The machine generates over 1,000 capsules per second, allowing to seed bioreactors from 200mL to 10L. However, the device was entirely redesigned to fit bioproduction standards.

"With the GMP device, our main challenge was to minimize the learning curve for operators, so as to facilitate tech transfer. Invetech and our team did an outstanding job in terms of automation and industrial design to make the device both robust and easy to use. As an inventor, I am so proud of the journey of the C-Stemtechnology. Many elements have been changed and improved on the way, and now comes the time to put the platform in the hands of real-world users to make real products." Kevin Alessandri, Ph.D., co-founder and chief technology officer, TreeFrog Therapeutics

"In October 2020, we announced that we were planning for the delivery of a GMP encapsulation device by the end of 2022. Exactly two years after, we're right on time. I guess this machine testifies to the outstanding execution capacity of TreeFrog and Invetech. But more importantly, this machine constitutes a key milestone. Our platform can now be used to manufacture clinical-grade cell therapy products. Our plan is to accelerate the translation of our in-house and partnered programs to the clinic, with a focus on immuno-oncology and regenerative medicine applications." Frederic Desdouits, Ph.D., chief executive officer, TreeFrog Therapeutics

About Invetech

Invetech helps cell and gene therapy developers to visualize, strategize and manage the future. With proven processes, expert insights and full-spectrum services, we swiftly accelerate life-changing therapies from the clinic to commercial-scale manufacturing. Through our ready-to-run, preconfigured systems, our custom and configurable technology platforms and automated production systems, we assure predictable, reproducible products of the highest quality and efficacy. Our integrated approach brings together biological scientists, engineers, designers and program managers to deliver successful, cost-effective market offerings to more people, more quickly. Working in close collaboration with early-stage and mature life sciences companies, we are committed to advancing the next generation of vital, emerging therapies to revolutionize healthcare and precision medicine.invetechgroup.com

About TreeFrog Therapeutics

TreeFrog Therapeutics is a French-based biotech company aiming to unlock access to cell therapies for millions of patients. Bringing together over 100 biophysicists, cell biologists and bioproduction engineers, TreeFrog Therapeutics raised $82M over the past 3 years to advance a pipeline of stem cell-based therapies in immuno-oncology and regenerative medicine. In 2022, the company opened technological hubs in Boston, USA, and Kobe, Japan, with the aim of driving the adoption of the C-Stemplatform and establish strategic alliances with leading academic, biotech and industry players in the field of cell therapy.www.treefrog.fr

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TreeFrog Therapeutics is a French-based biotech company aiming to unlock access to cell therapies for millions of patients. Bringing together over 100 biophysicists, cell biologists and bioproduction engineers, TreeFrog Therapeutics raised $82M over the past 3 years to advance a pipeline of stem cell-based therapies in immuno-oncology and regenerative medicine.

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Fanconi anemia is a rare genetic disease in which essential DNA repair pathway genes are mutated, disrupting the DNA damage response. Patients with Fanconi anemia experience hematological complications, including bone marrow failure, and are predisposed to cancer. The only curative therapy for the hematological symptoms of Fanconi anemia is an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant, in which a patient receives healthy stem cells from a donor. While this may cure or prevent some of the diseases complications, stem cell transplantation can cause additional difficulties, including graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) and exacerbated cancer risk.1

There is growing interest in applying genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 to correct Fanconi anemia mutations in patient-derived cells for autologous transplants, in which corrected stem cells are given back to the patient. However, this disease poses a unique challenge: How do you apply a genome editing technique in cells that are particularly sensitive to DNA damage? Fanconi anemia cells cannot resolve the double-strand breaks that conventional CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing creates in the target DNA, which prevents researchers from effectively correcting disease-causing mutations with this method.

In a study published in International Journal of Molecular Science, a research team at the University of Minnesota led by Branden Moriarity and Beau Webber used Cas9-based tools called base editors (BEs) to edit genes in Fanconi anemia patient-derived cells without inducing double-strand DNA damage.2 BEs are fusion proteins made of a Cas9 enzyme that cleaves target DNA (nCas9) and a deaminase that converts cytidine to uridine (cytosine base editor, CBE) or adenosine to inosine (adenosine base editor, ABE). During DNA replication or repair, sites targeted by a BE are rewritten as thymine in the case of CBEs, or guanine with ABEs.

Although base editors do not induce double-strand breaks, they still nick the DNA and trigger a DNA repair response. Because of this, the researchers first examined if CBEs and ABEs would work on non-Fanconi anemia genes in patient-derived cells. There was that mystery, you know, because [Fanconi anemia patient cells are] DNA repair deficient. So we weren't surewe thought maybe it would work, but not as well as a normal cell. But indeed, it works on the same level, basically. So that was pretty exciting, Moriarity explained.

The research team then demonstrated that CBEs and ABEs can correct Fanconi anemia-causing mutations in the FANCA gene in primary patient fibroblast and lymphoblastoid cell lines. Base editing restored FANCA protein expression and improved the ability of the patient-derived cells to grow in the presence of a DNA damaging chemical. Additionally, in culture, fibroblasts with corrected FANCA mutations outgrew cells in which the base editing failed. Finally, the researchers assessed if BEs could correct mutations in different Fanconi anemia genes. Using an algorithm, they predicted that most Fanconi anemia mutations were correctable either by BEs or by another nCas9-fusion technology called prime editing (PE), which is capable of large genetic insertions and deletions.

This work comes on the heels of a preprint from another research group at The Centre for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research and ETH Zurich, who investigated ABEs in patient blood cell lines. This group also effectively targeted Fanconi anemia genes with BE technology, and their investigation went one step further: they corrected mutations in patient-derived hematopoietic stem cells.3This was something that Moriarity and Webber were unable to dobecause the disease is a bone marrow failure syndrome, these cells are scarce. Basically, these patients do not have stem cells, explains Annarita Miccio, a senior researcher and lab director at Institute Imagine of Paris Cit University, who was not involved in either study. These are very challenging experiments, and more than the experiments, the challenge of [treating] Fanconi anemia is exactly thatthe number of cells.

Despite this challenge, the researchers have laid the groundwork for genome editing as a treatment approach in Fanconi anemia, without the need for double-strand DNA breaks. I think the study we did is a good, solid proof of concept, and sets the stage for the next steps, but certainly, it's not the end of the story, said Webber.

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Global Stem Cell Manufacturing Market

Dublin, Oct. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Stem Cell Manufacturing Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global stem cell manufacturing market size reached US$ 11.2 Billion in 2021. Looking forward, the publisher expects the market to reach US$ 18.59 Billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 8.81% during 2021-2027.

Stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that make up the tissues and organs of animals and plants. They are commonly sourced from blood, bone marrow, umbilical cord, embryo, and placenta. Under the right body and laboratory conditions, stem cells can divide to form more cells, such as red blood cells (RBCs), platelets, and white blood cells, which generate specialized functions.

They are widely used for human disease modeling, drug discovery, development of cell therapies for untreatable diseases, gene therapy, and tissue engineering. Stem cells are cryopreserved to maintain their viability and minimize genetic change and are consequently used later to replace damaged organs and tissues and treat various diseases.

Stem Cell Manufacturing Market Trends:

The global market is primarily driven by the increasing venture capital (VC) investments in stem cell research due to the rising awareness about the therapeutic potency of stem cells. Apart from this, the widespread product utilization in effective disease management, personalized medicine, and genome testing applications are favoring the market growth. Additionally, the incorporation of three-dimensional (3D) printing and microfluidic technologies to reduce production time and lower cost by integrating multiple production steps into one device is providing an impetus to the market growth.

Furthermore, the increasing product utilization in the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing hematopoietic stem cells (HSC)- and mesenchymal stem cells (MSC)-based drugs for treating tumors, leukemia, and lymphoma is acting as another growth-inducing factor.

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Moreover, the increasing product application in research applications to produce new drugs that assist in improving functions and altering the progress of diseases is providing a considerable boost to the market. Other factors, including the increasing usage of the technique in tissue and organ replacement therapies, significant improvements in medical infrastructure, and the implementation of various government initiatives promoting public health, are anticipated to drive the market.

Key Players

Anterogen Co. Ltd.

Becton Dickinson and Company

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.

Bio-Techne Corporation

Corning Incorporated

FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation

Lonza Group AG

Merck KGaA

Sartorius AG

Takara Bio Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Key Questions Answered in This Report:

How has the global stem cell manufacturing market performed so far and how will it perform in the coming years?

What has been the impact of COVID-19 on the global stem cell manufacturing market?

What are the key regional markets?

What is the breakup of the market based on the product?

What is the breakup of the market based on the application?

What is the breakup of the market based on the end user?

What are the various stages in the value chain of the industry?

What are the key driving factors and challenges in the industry?

What is the structure of the global stem cell manufacturing market and who are the key players?

What is the degree of competition in the industry?

Key Market Segmentation

Breakup by Product:

Consumables

Culture Media

Others

Instruments

Bioreactors and Incubators

Cell Sorters

Others

Stem Cell Lines

Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC)

Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC)

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC)

Embryonic Stem Cells (ESC)

Neural Stem Cells (NSC)

Multipotent Adult Progenitor Stem Cells

Breakup by Application:

Research Applications

Life Science Research

Drug Discovery and Development

Clinical Application

Allogenic Stem Cell Therapy

Autologous Stem Cell Therapy

Cell and Tissue Banking Applications

Breakup by End User:

Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Companies

Academic Institutes, Research Laboratories and Contract Research Organizations

Hospitals and Surgical Centers

Cell and Tissue banks

Others

Breakup by Region:

North America

United States

Canada

Asia-Pacific

China

Japan

India

South Korea

Australia

Indonesia

Others

Europe

Germany

France

United Kingdom

Italy

Spain

Russia

Others

Latin America

Brazil

Mexico

Others

Middle East and Africa

Key Topics Covered:

1 Preface

2 Scope and Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Introduction

5 Global Stem Cell Manufacturing Market

6 Market Breakup by Product

7 Market Breakup by Application

8 Market Breakup by End User

9 Market Breakup by Region

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Dublin, Oct. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Stem Cell Manufacturing Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global stem cell manufacturing market size reached US$ 11.2 Billion in 2021. Looking forward, the publisher expects the market to reach US$ 18.59 Billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 8.81% during 2021-2027.

Stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that make up the tissues and organs of animals and plants. They are commonly sourced from blood, bone marrow, umbilical cord, embryo, and placenta. Under the right body and laboratory conditions, stem cells can divide to form more cells, such as red blood cells (RBCs), platelets, and white blood cells, which generate specialized functions.

They are widely used for human disease modeling, drug discovery, development of cell therapies for untreatable diseases, gene therapy, and tissue engineering. Stem cells are cryopreserved to maintain their viability and minimize genetic change and are consequently used later to replace damaged organs and tissues and treat various diseases.

Stem Cell Manufacturing Market Trends:

The global market is primarily driven by the increasing venture capital (VC) investments in stem cell research due to the rising awareness about the therapeutic potency of stem cells. Apart from this, the widespread product utilization in effective disease management, personalized medicine, and genome testing applications are favoring the market growth. Additionally, the incorporation of three-dimensional (3D) printing and microfluidic technologies to reduce production time and lower cost by integrating multiple production steps into one device is providing an impetus to the market growth.

Furthermore, the increasing product utilization in the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing hematopoietic stem cells (HSC)- and mesenchymal stem cells (MSC)-based drugs for treating tumors, leukemia, and lymphoma is acting as another growth-inducing factor.

Moreover, the increasing product application in research applications to produce new drugs that assist in improving functions and altering the progress of diseases is providing a considerable boost to the market. Other factors, including the increasing usage of the technique in tissue and organ replacement therapies, significant improvements in medical infrastructure, and the implementation of various government initiatives promoting public health, are anticipated to drive the market.

Key Players

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Key Market Segmentation

Breakup by Product:

Breakup by Application:

Breakup by End User:

Breakup by Region:

Key Topics Covered:

1 Preface

2 Scope and Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Introduction

5 Global Stem Cell Manufacturing Market

6 Market Breakup by Product

7 Market Breakup by Application

8 Market Breakup by End User

9 Market Breakup by Region

10 SWOT Analysis

11 Value Chain Analysis

12 Porters Five Forces Analysis

13 Price Analysis

14 Competitive Landscape

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CRANBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCKT), a leading late-stage biotechnology company advancing an integrated and sustainable pipeline of genetic therapies for rare childhood disorders with high unmet need, today announces data presentations at the 29th Annual Congress of the European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ESGCT) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, taking place October 11-14, 2022. Presentations will include clinical data from Rockets lentiviral vector (LV)-based gene therapy programs for Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I), Fanconi Anemia (FA) and Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD). Donald B. Kohn, MD, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, Pediatrics, and Molecular & Medical Pharmacology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Director of the UCLA Human Gene and Cell Therapy Program, will also give an Invited Talk incorporating previously disclosed data from the RP-L201 trial for LAD-I.

Positive Updated Safety and Efficacy Data from Phase 2 Pivotal Trial for Fanconi Anemia (FA)

The poster and presentation include updated safety and efficacy data from the Phase 2 pivotal trial of RP-L102, Rockets ex-vivo lentiviral gene therapy candidate for the treatment of FA.

Positive Top-line Clinical Data from Phase 2 Pivotal Trial for Severe Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I)

The oral presentation includes previously disclosed efficacy and safety data at three to 24 months of follow-up after RP-L201 infusion for all patients and overall survival data for seven patients at 12 months or longer after infusion. RP-L201 is Rockets ex-vivo lentiviral gene therapy candidate for the treatment of severe LAD-I.

Interim Data from Ongoing Phase 1 Trial for Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD)

The poster and presentation include previously disclosed safety and efficacy data from the Phase 1 trial of RP-L301, Rockets ex-vivo lentiviral gene therapy candidate for the treatment of PKD.

Details for Rockets Invited Talk and poster presentations are as follows:

Title: Interim Results from an ongoing Phase 1/2 Study of Lentiviral-Mediated Ex-Vivo Gene Therapy for Pediatric Patients with Severe Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I)Session: Clinical Trials (Plenary 2)Presenter: Donald B. Kohn, MD - University of California, Los Angeles, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics (MIMG), Pediatrics, and Molecular & Medical Pharmacology; Director of the UCLA Human Gene and Cell Therapy ProgramSession date and time: Wednesday, 12 October at 11:10-13:15 BSTLocation: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC)Presentation Number: INV20

Title: Lentiviral-Mediated Gene Therapy for Patients with Fanconi Anemia [Group A]: Results from Global RP-L102 Clinical TrialsSession: Poster Session 1Presenter: Julin Sevilla MD, PhD - Fundacin para la Investigacin Biomdica, Hospital Infantil Universitario Nio JessSession date and time: Wednesday, 12 October at 19:30-21:00 BSTLocation: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC)Poster Number: P139

Title: Preliminary Conclusions of the Phase I/II Gene therapy Trial in Patients with Fanconi Anemia-ASession: Blood Diseases: Haematopoietic Cell DisordersPresenter: Juan Bueren, PhD - Unidad de Innovacin Biomdica, Centro de Investigaciones Energticas, Medioambientales y Tecnolgicas (CIEMAT)Session date and time: Thursday, 13 October at 15:30-17:30 BSTLocation: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC)Presentation Number: INV41

Title: Interim Results from an Ongoing Global Phase 1 Study of Lentiviral-Mediated Gene Therapy for Pyruvate Kinase DeficiencySession: Poster Session 2Presenter: Jos Luis Lpez Lorenzo, MD, Hospital Universitario Fundacin Jimnez DazSession date and time: Thursday, 13 October at 17:30-19:15 BSTLocation: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC)Poster Number: P128

Abstracts for the presentations can be found online at: https://www.esgct.eu/.

About Fanconi Anemia

Fanconi Anemia (FA) is a rare pediatric disease characterized by bone marrow failure, malformations and cancer predisposition. The primary cause of death among patients with FA is bone marrow failure, which typically occurs during the first decade of life. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), when available, corrects the hematologic component of FA, but requires myeloablative conditioning. Graft-versus-host disease, a known complication of allogeneic HSCT, is associated with an increased risk of solid tumors, mainly squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck region. Approximately 60-70% of patients with FA have a Fanconi Anemia complementation group A (FANCA) gene mutation, which encodes for a protein essential for DNA repair. Mutations in the FANCA gene leads to chromosomal breakage and increased sensitivity to oxidative and environmental stress. Increased sensitivity to DNA-alkylating agents such as mitomycin-C (MMC) or diepoxybutane (DEB) is a gold standard test for FA diagnosis. Somatic mosaicism occurs when there is a spontaneous correction of the mutated gene that can lead to stabilization or correction of a FA patients blood counts in the absence of any administered therapy. Somatic mosaicism, often referred to as natural gene therapy provides a strong rationale for the development of FA gene therapy because of the selective growth advantage of gene-corrected hematopoietic stem cells over FA cells.

About Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I

Severe Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I) is a rare, autosomal recessive pediatric disease caused by mutations in the ITGB2 gene encoding for the beta-2 integrin component CD18. CD18 is a key protein that facilitates leukocyte adhesion and extravasation from blood vessels to combat infections. As a result, children with severe LAD-I are often affected immediately after birth. During infancy, they suffer from recurrent life-threatening bacterial and fungal infections that respond poorly to antibiotics and require frequent hospitalizations. Children who survive infancy experience recurrent severe infections including pneumonia, gingival ulcers, necrotic skin ulcers, and septicemia. Without a successful bone marrow transplant, mortality in patients with severe LAD-I is 60-75% prior to the age of 2 and survival beyond the age of 5 is uncommon. There is a high unmet medical need for patients with severe LAD-I.

Rockets LAD-I research is made possible by a grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Grant Number CLIN2-11480). The contents of this press release are solely the responsibility of Rocket and do not necessarily represent the official views of CIRM or any other agency of the State of California.

About Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency

Pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD) is a rare, monogenic red blood cell disorder resulting from a mutation in the PKLR gene encoding for the pyruvate kinase enzyme, a key component of the red blood cell glycolytic pathway. Mutations in the PKLR gene result in increased red cell destruction and the disorder ranges from mild to life-threatening anemia. PKD has an estimated prevalence of 4,000 to 8,000 patients in the United States and the European Union. Children are the most commonly and severely affected subgroup of patients. Currently available treatments include splenectomy and red blood cell transfusions, which are associated with immune defects and chronic iron overload.

RP-L301 was in-licensed from the Centro de Investigaciones Energticas, Medioambientales y Tecnolgicas (CIEMAT), Centro de Investigacin Biomdica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER) and Instituto de Investigacin Sanitaria de la Fundacin Jimnez Daz (IIS-FJD).

About Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCKT) is advancing an integrated and sustainable pipeline of investigational genetic therapies designed to correct the root cause of complex and rare childhood disorders. The Companys platform-agnostic approach enables it to design the best therapy for each indication, creating potentially transformative options for patients afflicted with rare genetic diseases. Rocket's clinical programs using lentiviral vector (LVV)-based gene therapy are for the treatment of Fanconi Anemia (FA), a difficult to treat genetic disease that leads to bone marrow failure and potentially cancer, Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I), a severe pediatric genetic disorder that causes recurrent and life-threatening infections which are frequently fatal, and Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD), a rare, monogenic red blood cell disorder resulting in increased red cell destruction and mild to life-threatening anemia. Rockets first clinical program using adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy is for Danon Disease, a devastating, pediatric heart failure condition. For more information about Rocket, please visit http://www.rocketpharma.com

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The FDA recently approved two gene therapies with hefty price tags, the first for an inherited anemia and the second for a degenerative brain condition. The two new treatments, from bluebirdbio, double the number of gene therapies on the market.

Most biotechnologies evolve over three decades or so, but the idea of gene therapy has been around since the late 1950s, blooming soon after Watson and Crick solved the structure of DNA. When my book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved Itwas published a decade ago, it would still be 5 years before the first approval. That treatment, the subject of my book, enabled the blind to see, sometimes in just days.

Why has the pace of gene therapy been so slow? Cost is one barrier. Other concerns are the degree to which a gene therapy actually helps, how long the effect lasts, and what proportion of patients respond.

FDAs gene therapy roster ishere, but a caveat is necessary.

The list lumps gene therapy in with cell therapy, inviting unintentional hype from media folks unfamiliar with the science. Most entries actually refer to using stem cells to treat blood cancers and related conditions. An example: cartilage cells are sampled from a person with abum knee, mass-produced in a dish, and then injected into the knee, where they fuel production of more cartilage.

My favorite example of not-really-gene-therapy on the FDAs list targetsfacial wrinkles, also using patients lab-expanded cells: 18 million fibroblasts injected three times churn out collagen, filling in the offending skin craters.

Buried in the FDAs list are the first twoactualgene therapy approvals.Luxturna(Spark Therapeutics) treats RPE65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy and has restored vision in many patients since its approval at the end of 2017. The second approved gene therapy, in 2019, isZolgensma, to treat spinal muscular atrophy, from Novartis Gene Therapies.

FDA approvedZynteglo on August 17, aka betibeglogene autotemcel or eli-cel. It treats the blood disorder beta thalassemia, which causes weakness, dizziness, fatigue, and bone problems. People with severe cases need transfusions of red blood cells every two to five weeks, which can lead to dangerous buildup of iron.

Zynteglo is a one-time infusion of stem cells descended from a patients bone marrow in which functional beta globin genes have been introduced aboard lentiviruses disabled HIV. The $2.8 million treatment is approved for adults and children.

Two clinical trials enrolled 91 patients, 36 of whom improved enough to no longer need transfusions. Bluebird estimates that 1,300 to 1,500 people in the U.S. may be candidates for Zynteglo.

The second go-ahead is forSkysona, approved September 16 for early active cerebral adrenoleukodystropy (CALD). The condition destroys the protective myelin sheath around brain neurons.

A stem cell transplant can cure CALD. Skysona is for the 700 or so boys aged 4 to 17 who cant find matched donors. Nearly fifty percent of them die within five years of symptom onset.

But like many gene therapies, Skysona isnt a magic bullet. In the two ongoing clinical trials, the metric for assessing improvement is slowing neurologic decline, tracking major functional disabilities. These include loss of communication skills, vision, and of voluntary movement, which impairs mobility, eating, and urinary retention.

The 2-year study that led to the FDA approval followed boys with mild or no symptoms, diagnosis possible early due to newborn screening in many states. Those who received Skysona had a 72% likelihood of survival over the two years without developing new major functional disabilities, compared to 43% among untreated boys. The trial will follow participants for 15 years. Since many states are nowscreening newborns for ALD, perhaps boys destined to develop symptoms can receive Skysona before that if someone will pick up the $3 million tab per patient.

Gene therapy companies have long justified high costs with the expense of the bench-to-bedside trajectory. So I was surprised to see a new study published inJAMA Network Open, Association of Research and Development Investments With Treatment Costs for New Drugs Approved From 2009 to 2018, finding none. The authors admonish companies to make further data available to support their claims that high drug prices are needed to recover research and development investments, if they are to continue to use this argument to justify high prices.

Becausethe paperuses terms like first-in-class, accelerated approval, breakthrough therapy, orphan, and priority review language Ive often seen attached to descriptions of gene therapy I assumed it would include Luxturna, which costs $850,000 for both eyes. But the new report omits drug names, instead citing a2020 paperfrom the team that did.No Luxturna. Thats probably because the researchers evaluated R&D costs only for products with publicly available data thats 63 drugs, a mere fifth of new approvals. The new report, of course sent out in news release form to the media, provides more a glimpse than a revelation.

So perhaps gene therapy is an exception for which high prices are indeed required to recoup investment. A viral vector to deliver DNA can cost $500,000 or more to produce, let alone engineer and develop.

Companies also use the one-and-done strategy to justify high prices. The homepage of bluebird bios website, for example, proclaims were pursuing curative gene therapies, although the data on Skysona for CALD indicate incremental change.Axios reports on how Medicaid, private insurers, and companies will help address cost concerns.

While bluebird bio bats around the c word cure it also introduces a long-needed granularity to the terminology. The company has replaced gene therapy with the more accurate gene addition therapy. Thats what the four approved gene therapies actually do add working copies of genes, not fixing them in place. Gene therapy is a little like patching a flat tire, not replacing it.

But the next stage of the evolving technology will in fact befixing genes, courtesy of gene and genome editing. This more precise strategy circumvents the problem of a piece of DNA inserting willy-nilly into a chromosome, perhaps disrupting a cancer-causing gene.

Gene editing with CRISPR has now been around for a decade. The components of the toolkit have been refined to minimize so-called off-target effects that can harpoon unintended genes.

A team atSt. Jude Childrens Research Hospitalhas developed what hematologist Yong Cheng terms the Google Maps of editing the genome. We provide a new approach to identify places to safely integrate a gene cassette. We created step-by-step directions to find safe harbor sites in specific tissues. The recipe is published inGenome Biologyand the tool availablehere.

The approach is seemingly simple. Using data from the 1000 Genomes Project, the tool identifies parts of the genome that often bear inserted or deleted DNA sequences among healthy people (and therefore are harmless) and are highly variable. These are the places where unwound DNA loops about itself when replicating just before a cell divides, and could tolerate a healing gene harpoon going astray.

Safe gene therapy requires two things. Number one, maintaining high expression of the new gene. And number two, the integration needs to have minimal effects on the normal human genome, Cheng said.

Gene addition therapy and gene/genome editing are slowly taking their places among other weapons against genetic disease. These include antisense treatments that glom onto mutant genes, small molecule-based drugs, repurposing existing drugs, supplements, and perhaps most important, the therapies that impact life on a daily basis. And so the toolbox expands to tackle the errors in our genes.

Ricki Lewis has a PhD in genetics and is a science writer and author of several human genetics books.She is an adjunct professor for the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.Follow her at herwebsiteor Twitter@rickilewis

A version of this article originally appeared at PLOS and is reposted here with permission. Find PLOS on Twitter @PLOS

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NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellectis (the Company) (Euronext Growth: ALCLS - NASDAQ: CLLS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies, announced today that the Company will present both an oral and poster at the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapys (ESGCT) 29th Congress, to be held in Edinburgh from October 11-14, 2022.

Arianna Moiani, Ph.D., Senior Scientist & Team Leader Innovation Gene Therapy, will give an oral presentation on encouraging pre-clinical data that leverages TALEN gene editing technology to develop a hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPCs)-based gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease.

Eduardo Seclen, Ph.D., Senior Scientist & Team Leader, Gene Editing, will present a poster illustrating a TALEN-based gene editing approach that reprograms HSPCs to secrete alpha-L-iduronidase (IDUA), a therapeutic enzyme missing in Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS-I).

The pre-clinical data presented at ESGCT further demonstrate our ability to leverage TALEN gene editing technology to potentially address genetic diseases, namely, sickle cell disease and lysosomal storage diseases. By correcting a faulty mutation or inserting a corrected gene at the HSPC level, we aim to provide a lifelong supply of healthy cells in a single intervention, said Philippe Duchateau, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Cellectis. These new milestones bring us one step closer to our goal: providing a cure to patients that have failed to respond to standard therapy.

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Pre-clinical data presentation on a non-viral DNA delivery associated with TALEN gene editing that leads to highly efficient correction of sickle cell mutation in long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells

Sickle cell disease stems from a single point mutation in the HBB gene which results in sickle hemoglobin.

Cellectis leveraged its TALEN technology to develop a gene editing process that leads to highly efficient HBB gene correction via homology directed repair, while mitigating potential risks associated to HBB gene knock-out. Overall, these results show that non-viral DNA delivery associated with TALEN gene editing reduces the toxicity usually observed with viral DNA delivery and allows high levels of HBB gene correction in long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells.

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The oral presentation titled Non-viral DNA delivery associated to TALEN gene editing leads to highly efficient correction of sickle cell mutation in long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells, will be made on Thursday, October 13th, 8:30AM-10:45AM BST by Arianna Moiani, Ph.D., Senior Scientist & Team Leader Innovation Gene Therapy. The presentation can be found on the Cellectis website on the day of the presentation.

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Pre-clinical data presentation on TALEN-mediated engineering of HSPC that enables systemic delivery of IDUA

Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS-I) is caused by deficiencies in the alpha-L-iduronidase (IDUA) gene and it is associated with severe morbidity representing a significant unmet medical need.

Cellectis established a TALEN-basedex vivogene editing protocol to insert an IDUA-expression cassette into a specific locus of HSPC.

Editing rates in vivo were 6-9% sixteen weeks after injection, depending on the tissue analyzed (blood, spleen, bone marrow). Lastly, 8.3% of human cells were edited in the brain compartment.

Cellectis established a safe TALEN-based gene editing protocol procuring IDUA-edited HSPCs able to engraft, differentiate into multiple lineages and reach multiple tissues, including the brain.

The poster presentation titled TALEN-mediated engineering of HSPC enables systemic delivery of IDUA, will be made on Thursday, October 13th, 5:30PM - 7:15PM BST by Eduardo Seclen, Ph.D., Senior Scientist & Team Leader, Gene Editing, and can be found on Cellectis website.

About Cellectis

Cellectis is a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies. Cellectis utilizes an allogeneic approach for CAR-T immunotherapies in oncology, pioneering the concept of off-the-shelf and ready-to-use gene-edited CAR T-cells to treat cancer patients, and a platform to make therapeutic gene editing in hemopoietic stem cells for various diseases. As a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with over 22 years of experience and expertise in gene editing, Cellectis is developing life-changing product candidates utilizing TALEN, its gene editing technology, and PulseAgile, its pioneering electroporation system to harness the power of the immune system in order to treat diseases with unmet medical needs. Cellectis headquarters are in Paris, France, with locations in New York, New York and Raleigh, North Carolina. Cellectis is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (ticker: CLLS) and on Euronext Growth (ticker: ALCLS).

For more information, visit http://www.cellectis.com. Follow Cellectis on social media: @cellectis, LinkedIn and YouTube.

For further information, please contact:

Media contacts:Pascalyne Wilson,Director,Communications,+33 (0)7 76 99 14 33, media@cellectis.comMargaret Gandolfo, Senior Manager, Communications, +1 (646) 628 0300

Investor Relation contact:Arthur Stril, Chief Business Officer, +1 (347) 809 5980, investors@cellectis.comAshley R. Robinson, LifeSci Advisors, +1 617430 7577

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