2/IMO the most significant corporate event in Q4 was $CRSP announcement that regulatory Exa-cel submissions of both #SickleCell & #BetaThalassemia validated in the #EU & #UK & that the @US_FDA BLA submission is on track by the end of Q1 ‘23 - possibly reaching the #markets in ‘23
3/Exa-cel/CTX001 - the key program in $CRSP portfolio, is an #autologous Ex-Vivo #CRISPR/#Cas9#GeneEditing therapy aimed for patients suffering from #TDT or severe #SCD. The latest readout for both programs was phenomenal with 42/44 TDT & 31/31(!) demonstrated remarkable results
4/Last December - during #ASH22@CRISPRTX & $VRTX presented an updated clinical data from the exa-cel trail taken from 75 #patients: 44 TDT+31 #sicklecelldisease & with a long follow-up. The data demonstrates that exa-cel has the potential to be a one-time functional #cure.
5/Exa-cel was submitted to the @US_FDA for BLA rolling review with expected completion of the submission package by the end of Q1 2023. If approved - Exa-cel will be the first ever #CRISPR product to be commercialised & marketed thus making @CRISPRTX the first to sell a product.
6/@CRISPRTX second program is CTX110 - a wholly owned donor-derived #GeneEditing#allogeneic antigen receptor T cell #CAR-T #therapy targeting CD19+ B-cell malignancies. CTX110 has also been granted a Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy - #RMAT designation from the @US_FDA.
7/Patients that were treated with CTX110 as part of the @CRISPRTX#CARBON#clinicaltrail have shown good results. CTX110 was well tolerated across all dose levels & patients in CR remain clinically well without receiving any systematic anti-#Cancer#Therapy other than CTX110👇
8/@CRISPRTX has recently provided a clinical update for both its Part A & Part B of $CRSP ongoing Phase 1 #CARBON trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of CTX110 its wholly-owned #allogeneic CAR T #celltherapy targeting CD19+ B-#cell malignancies. Here is a 🧵 that I wrote👇
9/@CRISPRTX will initiate clinical trials for CTX112 - next gen CAR T platforms targeting CD19+ B-cell malignancies, in 1H 2023. CTX112 incorporates the edits in CTX110 plus additional edits to the genes encoding Regnase-1 & TGFBRII, thus increasing the potency of the CAR T cells
10/CTX130 is another $CRSP wholly-owned #allogeneic CAR-T #CellTherapy targeting #CD70, for the treatment of Mycosis Fungoides & #Sézary Syndrome - both types of cutaneous T-cell #lymphoma. In September @CRISPRTX announced that the @US_FDA has granted it RMAT designation.
11/CTX130 has showed overall a good safety profile - patients that were treated with CTX130 as part of the @CRISPRTX#COBALT#clinicaltrail have shown good results with #disease control rate DCR of 90% (N=10), 70% ORR & 30% CR rate. $CRSP CTX130 recent readout was also promising
13/@ViaCyte & $CRSP have 3 #CRISPR#GeneEditing programs - VCTX210 in which the first patient was dosed as part of a Phase 1 clinical trial. $CRSP expects to move the other two In-Vivo programs - VCTX211 & VCTX212 - both for #diabetes into the clinic in the next 18-24 months👇
14/@CRISPRTX has named recently another 2 new #CardioVascular programs 1)CTX310 for #ANGPTL3 & 2)CTX330 for PCSK9. Regarding both - IMO $VERV is much more advanced & especially after @VerveTx’s recent data & the ongoing #Heart-1 trail it is most likely to dominate this market.
15/As of 12/31/22 $CRSP had capital resources of $2.24B & R&D expenses of $103M. IMO @CRISPRTX’s current cash position will enable it to continue to develop its clinical pipeline with hopefully the first #CRISPR commercial product hitting the markets in 2023 & generating revenue
16/With an highly anticipated first ever @US_FDA approval for a #GeneEditing platform expected in 2023 @CRISPRTX will be the 1ST #CRISPR company with a product in the market & with a strong cash position of $2.24B - @CRISPRTX IMO continues to look very solid & promising. $CRSP
1/🚨WOW! $CRBU has presented updated clinical data from @CaribouBio ongoing CB-011 CaMMouflage phase 1 clinical trial in cancer patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (r/r MM). The CB-011 CaMMouflage phase 1 translational and clinical data - which was presented at the 2026 Tandem Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR, demonstrated deep and durable responses and further support the potential of CB-011 as the best-in-class allogeneic CAR-T Cell Therapy for second-line relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients. $XBI 🧵👇
2/Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that develops in the patient’s bone marrow when plasma cells become cancerous and produce abnormal proteins instead of functional antibodies. Common symptoms include persistent bone pain (often back or ribs), fatigue, frequent infections, kidney damage and high calcium levels. While modern treatments (chemotherapy, targeted therapy, stem cell transplants) can manage the disease for years - Multiple myeloma is still considered incurable and present a significant unmet medical need.
3/CB-011 is an alogeneic anti-BCMA CAR-T Cell Therapy using $CRBU Cas12a CRISPR hybrid RNA-DNA (chRDNA) technology aimed to insert an anti-BCMA CAR expression into the TRAC gene and thus to knock out B2M to boost the persistence of antitumor activity and to reduce rejection.
1/@PrimeMedicine’s recent #JPM26 presentation emphasised its strategic priorities & the company’s planned milestones for 2026-7. Here’s my🧵👇which focuses on PRIME’s new prioritised pipeline, the progress $PRME has made during 2025 & its current corporate status. $XBI #JPM2026
2/@PrimeMedicine’s proprietary platform - Prime Editing is the only Gene Editing platform which can edit, correct, insert or even delete large DNA sequences in any target tissue. This makes it the most advanced & promising editing technology with $PRME owing its full IP rights.
3/IMO the most important key takeaway from @primemedicine’s #JPM26 presentation is that in 2026 $PRME intends to submit INDs and to initiate clinical trails for both of its key programs - PM577 for Wilson’s disease and PM647 for AATD. Moving forward with its liver franchise and providing positive human clinical data are a threshold for $PRME to enter into a significant collaboration with a big Pharma company.
1/🚨WOW! According to this excellent Economist’s article 🧵👇 it seems that the 🇬🇧 big Pharma company AstraZeneca - one of Europe’s and England’s last remaining BioTech and Pharma moguls, is moving its business away from England! $AZN leaving the UK is a huge negative milestone in the deterioration process of both the British and the European BioTech ecosystems which are rapidly collapsing and losing ground to the American BioTech ecosystem - following President Trump’s Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) policy as well as to the Chinese one which has made an exponential progress. $XBI
2/The British government has always considered its life science industry as one of the Crown Jewels of its economy and rightfully so - a 145 billion dollars industry which employs over 300,000 high skilled employees is crucial for the British economy. The importance of the Pharma and Biotech industry has led the British government to a present a new governmental initiative to support the industry and that was introduced by the Labor government just 3 months ago.
3/But it seems that the British BioTech & Pharma sector is about to face its biggest challenge ever after AstraZeneca - Britain’s biggest and leading Pharma company is shifting its corporate strategy including a possible relocation of $AZN entire operations to the U.S. including mass investments being made outside England!
1/🚨WOW! A huge earthquake in the CRISPR & Gene Editing field happened last night after $EDIT has announced that the U.S Federal Court of Appeals has vacated (!) the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) previous decision🧵👇which granted all of the rights for CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing to the Broad institute and ruled against University of California, the University of Vienna & Nobel Prize winner Emmanuelle Charpentier - the co-inventor of CRISPR Cas9 and the co-founder of CRISPR Therapeutics. $CRSP $NTLA $XBI
2/In February of 2022 the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has issued a crucial decision in favour of the Broad Institute, which validated its patents for CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing in human cells. This provided $EDIT with strong IP rights & gave it a huge commercial advantage. $XBI
3/But the losing side in this dispute over the patents for CRISPR/Cas9 editing in human cells - the University of California, the University of Vienna & Emmanuelle Charpentier - the co-founder of $CRSP refused to accept this ruling and instead filed an appeal.
1/Here’s an excellent article - published in the recent @WIRED issue, by Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna about how AI & machine learning are amplifying the impact of CRISPR & Gene editing in all walks of life - medicine, agriculture, climate change & research landscape.🧵👇
2/Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist who discovered CRISPR Cas9 as a Gene Editing tool & had received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery. She also founded several BioTech companies like $NTLA, $CRBU, Scribe, Mammoth & others.
3/According to Jennifer Doudna - 2025 will be a pivotal year in which the ever growing use of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning will amplify the effects and reach of CRISPR and Gene Editing in many aspects of our lives - curative medicines, agriculture & lab research.
1/🚨WOW! $SANA announced initial positive results from its first-in-human study of UP421 - an allogeneic primary islet Cell Therapy engineered with Sana’s proprietary hypoimmune (HIP) technology for patients with type 1 Diabetes, without the use of any immunosuppression $XBI 🧵👇
2/Type 1 diabetes is a chronic (life-long) autoimmune disease that prevents the patient’s pancreas from making Insulin - an important hormone that regulates the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Type 1 diabetes affects both children and adults & requires daily management with insulin injections and blood sugar monitoring.
3/Type 1 Diabetes affects roughly 8.4M people worldwide. The number of patients is constantly rising and the prevalence of type 1 diabetes is expected to double over the next decade. Interestingly enough almost 80% of T1D patients are from high-income countries with insurance.