The EMA's human medicines committee has started a review of Novartis' sickle cell disease (SCD) therapy Adakveo, shortly after the company reported that it failed to show efficacy in a phas
Blood cells grown in a laboratory have been given to people for the first time in a clinical trial being carried out by researchers in the UK, in the hope that plentiful supplies of rare bl
Vertex Pharma and partner CRISPR Therapeutics will start a rolling marketing application in the US for their gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta thalassaemia later this
Novo Nordisk has doubled down on position in the sickle cell disease (SCD) category with a $1.1 billion agreement to acquire Forma Therapeutics, and its therapeutic candidate etavopivat, in
Pfizer's reported interest in acquiring sickle cell disease specialist Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT) has been confirmed, with the $68.50-per-share deal valuing GBT at $5.4 billion.
Pfizer is on the brink of announcing a deal to buy Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT) and its oral therapy Oxbryta for sickle cell disease for around $5 billion, according to press reports.