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UK’s NICE will cover $700K cost of GSK’s gene therapy; Evoke shares spike on NDA plans – Endpoints News

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2017-10-23 NEWS

Endpoints News

UK’s NICE will cover $700K cost of GSK’s gene therapy; Evoke shares spike on NDA plans
Endpoints News
The UK’s pharma price watchdog NICE has sanctioned coverage of GlaxoSmithKline’s gene therapy Strimvelis for “bubble baby” syndrome, which costs about $700,000 for the once-and-done therapy. About three babies a year are born with ADA-SCID in the …

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2017-10-23 NEWS

Big Biotech In The CRISPR Game: Novartis And Vertex Lead The Pack
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CRISPR Therapeutics and Intellia Therapeutics are partnered with the strongest large biotech plays in the space in Vertex and Novartis respectively. NVS will maintain a significant leading role in CAR-T engineering with NTLA’s CRISPR technologies …

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2017-10-23 NEWS

Big Biotech In The CRISPR Game: Novartis And Vertex Lead The Pack
Seeking Alpha
CRISPR Therapeutics and Intellia Therapeutics are partnered with the strongest large biotech plays in the space in Vertex and Novartis respectively. NVS will maintain a significant leading role in CAR-T engineering with NTLA’s CRISPR technologies …

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2017-10-23 NEWS

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2017-10-23 NEWS

U.S. News & World Report

T Cells Take on Cancer
U.S. News & World Report
In addition to checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy showing promise is chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, in which T cells, a key part of the immune system, are genetically modified in the lab to target the person’s specific cancer