The first faecal transplant therapy derived from the gut microbiome of healthy donors was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on 30 November, paving the way for regulatory reviews of other products in the sector. The therapy, Rebyota, was developed by Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc and approved for the prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, a potentially life-threatening disease.
AstraZeneca Plc is to acquire a Dutch company with technology for developing T cell therapies for cancer which target antigens specific to a patient’s tumour. The company, Neogene Therapeutics Inc, was founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2018 and has a pipeline of candidate therapies that consist of engineered T cells equipped with receptors targeting tumour-specific antigens, also known as neoantigens.
A new German neuroscience company was formally launched in Heidelberg on 17 November with plans to develop small molecule drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. FundaMental Pharma GmbH has received €10 million in seed financing from a consortium led by BioGeneration Ventures and Thuja Capital of the Netherlands and High-Tech Gründerfonds in Germany.
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