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. 2021 Aug 17;28(2):205–219. doi: 10.15388/Amed.2021.28.2.8

Table 1.

Biological therapy medicines approved or in an approval process in the European Union and medicines at a preclinical state in the European Union and the United States of America. The medicines in this table depict a part of the biological therapy treatments that are approved or in preclinical state. More information about these treatments and their state could be found in https://crisprmedicinenews.com/, https://www.ema.europa.eu/en, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/home.

Approved or in approval process (in European Union)
Disease Treatment target Therapy type Medicine name State of the medicine Source of information about the medicine
Hereditary diseases
Metachromatic leukodystrophy ARSA gene Gene therapy Libmeldy Authorised (approved) https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/libmeldy
Severe combined immunodeficiency due to ADA deficiency ADA gene Gene therapy Strimvelis Authorised (approved) https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/strimvelis
Inherited retinal dystrophy (retinitis pigmentosa) RPE65 gene Gene therapy Luxturna Additional monitoring https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/luxturna
Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis TTR gene Antisense therapy Tegsedi Authorised (approved) https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/tegsedi
Acute hepatic porphyria ALAD gene Antisense therapy Givlaari Authorised (approved) https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/givlaari
Spinal muscular atrophy (type 1, 2 and 3) SMN2 gene Antisense therapy Evrysdi Authorised (approved) https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/evrysdi
Spinal muscular atrophy (type 1) SMN1 gene Gene therapy Zolgensma Conditional approval https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/zolgensma
Beta thalassaemia HBB gene Gene therapy Zynteglo Under evaluation by EMA https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/referrals/szynteglo
Early cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy ABCD1 gene Gene therapy Skysona Recommendation for EMA to grant a marketing authorisation https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/summaries-opinion/skysona
Malignancies
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma Gene encoding CAR protein Gene therapy Yescarta Authorised (approved) https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/yescarta
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Gene encoding CAR protein Gene therapy Kymriah Authorised (approved) https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/kymriah
Preclinical state (in European Union, United States of America)
Disease Treatment target Therapy type Medicine name State of the medicine Source of information about the medicine
Hereditary diseases
Mucopolysaccharidosis (type 1) IDUA gene Gene editing (Zinc finger nuclease) SB-318 Active clinical trial, not recruiting potential participants yet https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02702115?term=NCT027021 15&draw=2&rank=1 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/mucopolysaccharidosis-type-i-mps-i-nct02702115/
Mucopolysaccharidosis (type 2) IDS gene Gene editing (Zinc finger nuclease) SB-913 Active clinical trial, not recruiting potential participants yet https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03041324?term=gene+editing&recrs=d&draw=2&rank=3 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/mucopolysaccharidosis-ii-mps-ii-nct03041324/
Transfusion dependent Beta-Thalassemia, Sickle Cell Disease BCL11A gene Geneediting (CRISPR-Cas CTX001 Recruiting participants https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03655678?term=CTX001&draw=2&rank=3 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03745287?term=CTX001&dr aw=2&rank=2
Leber Congenital Amaurosis (Type 10) CEP290 gene Gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9) EDIT-101 Recruiting participants https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03872479?term=EDIT-101&draw=2&rank=1 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/leber-congenital-amaurosis-nct03872479/
Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis TTR gene Gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9) NTLA-2001 Recruiting participants https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04601051?term=NCT046010 51&draw=2&rank=1 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/transthyretin-amyloidosis-attr-nct04601051/
Infectious diseases
Refractory herpetic viral keratitis Herpes simplex virus type I genome Gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9) BD111 Active clinical trial, not recruiting potential participants yet https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04560790?term=gene+editing &draw=2&rank=1 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/herpes-simplex-virus-refractory-keratitis-nct04560790/
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection CCR5 gene Gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9) CCR5 gene modification Unknown (A study on whose the status has not been last verified within the past 2 years) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03164135?term=NCT03164135&draw=2&rank=1 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/human-immunodeficiency-virus-infection-hiv-nct03164135/
Malignancies
Relapsed or refractory renal cell carcinoma TRAC locus Gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9) CTX130 Recruiting participants https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04438083?term=gene+editing&recrs=a&draw=2&rank=9 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/ clinical-trial/renal-cell-carcinoma-rcc-nct04438083/
Gastro-Intestinal Cancer CISH gene Gene editing (CRIPSR-Cas9) TumorInfiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) Recruiting participants https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04426669?term=gene+editing &draw=2&rank=8 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/gastro-intestinal-cancer-gi-nct04426669/
Human Papillomavirus- Related Malignant Neoplasm Human papillomavirus genes encoding proteins E6 and E7 Gene editing (TALENs) T27 and T512 Recruiting participants https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03226470?term=NCT03226470&draw=2&rank=1 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/human-papillomavirus-hpv-related-cervical-cancer-nct03226470/
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma TRAC locus Gene editing (meganuclease) PBCAR19B Recruiting participants https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT04649112 https://investor.precisionbiosciences.com/news-releases/news-release-details/precision-biosciences-receives-notice-allowance-us-patent https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/haematologic-malignancy-non-hodgkin-lymphoma-nhl-nct04649112/
Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer PDCD1 gene Gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9) PD-1 Knockout T Cells Completed https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02793856?term=NCT027938 56&draw=2&rank=1 https://crisprmedicinenews.com/clinical-trial/metastatic-non-small-cell-lung-cancer-nsclc-nct02793856/