
Ash 2019 preview – the first winner and losers emerge
Celgene’s registrational Transcend NHL-001 study will be a big story at Ash, but the early focus falls on what has not been presented.

Who will capitalise on CAR-T at last? Not big pharma, says Tmunity
While praising Novartis for kickstarting the CAR-T revolution, the chief exec of Tmunity has no doubt where cell therapy’s development engine really lies.

A Nasdaq float is scrapped, but for Poseida that’s great news
The CAR-T company cancels its Nasdaq IPO after securing more in a Novartis-led private financing.

Vertex and Crispr up the ante in gene therapy chase
The first sickle cell and beta thalassaemia patients have been enrolled into a Crispr/Cas9 trial, heating up a race with Bluebird, Sanofi, Sangamo and Editas.

JP Morgan 2019 day two roundup – after the party a harsh reality
After Monday’s celebrations the sector gets down to discussing the difficult business of actually selling and making money from drugs.

Allogene spells out its interest in Cellectis
As Allogene moves to follow Autolus onto the public markets, its IPO document could give hope that Cellectis’s allogeneic assets will at long last make meaningful…