CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

bluebird bio, a leader in the development of innovative gene therapies for severe genetic disorders, announced today that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved an award to the company for $9.3 million for the first round of its new Strategic Partnership Awards initiative. The award is to support a Phase 1/2 study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of LentiGlobin, the companys development-stage program for the treatment of beta-thalassemia, which will be initiated in the United States in 2013.

We are very encouraged by the clinical data generated to date demonstrating the potential of LentiGlobin as a one-time transformative gene therapy for patients with beta-thalassemia, said David Davidson, M.D., chief medical officer, bluebird bio. bluebird bio has made significant advances in lentiviral vector design, transduction efficiency, and in our manufacturing process, enabling the production of gene-modified products that can be scaled and deployed for many different clinical indications. We are delighted that CIRM has chosen to recognize the importance of this innovative approach for the treatment of one of the most commonly inherited blood disorders, and we are excited to work with CIRM to continue the development of LentiGlobin in the U.S.

bluebird bios LentiGlobin product introduces a fully functional human beta-globin gene into the patient's own hematopoietic stem cells. These corrected stem cells ultimately produce fully functioning red blood cells. bluebird bio is currently conducting a Phase 1/2 trial examining the feasibility, safety and efficacy of LentiGlobin in the treatment of beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Results of the first patient were reported in Nature in 2010, showing dramatic results, including stable expression of functional beta-globin resulting in transfusion independence which now extends for greater than four years following a single treatment.

This CIRM award is among the first awards under the agencys Strategic Partnership Awards initiative, which is designed to engage more effectively with industry and to increase outside investment in CIRM-funded stem cell research. The funding awards were made at the October 25, 2012 meeting of the stem cell agencys governing board, the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC).

About CIRM

CIRM was established in November 2004 with the passage of Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act. The statewide ballot measure, which provided $3 billion in funding for stem cell research at California universities and research institutions, was overwhelmingly approved by voters, and called for the establishment of an entity to make grants and provide loans for stem cell research, research facilities, and other vital research opportunities. A list of grants and loans awarded to date may be seen here: http://www.cirm.ca.gov/for-researchers/researchfunding.

About bluebird bio

bluebird bio is developing innovative gene therapies for severe genetic disorders. At the heart of bluebird bios product creation efforts is its broadly applicable gene therapy platform for the development of novel treatments for diseases with few or no clinical options. The companys novel approach uses stem cells harvested from the patients own bone marrow into which a healthy version of the disease causing gene is inserted. bluebird bios approach represents a true paradigm shift in the treatment of severe genetic diseases by eliminating the potential complications associated with donor cell transplantation and potentially presenting a one-time transformative therapy using a patients own stem cells. bluebird bio has two later stage clinical products in development for childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CCALD) and beta-thalassemia/sickle cell disease. Led by a world-class team, its operations are located in Cambridge, Mass., San Francisco and Paris, France. For more information, please visit http://www.bluebirdbio.com.

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Newswise BOSTONAspirin therapy can extend the life of colorectal cancer patients whose tumors carry a mutation in a key gene, but has no effect on patients who lack the mutation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists report in the Oct. 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

In a study involving more than 900 patients with colorectal cancer, the researchers found that, for patients whose tumors harbored a mutation in the gene PIK3CA, aspirin use produced a sharp jump in survival: five years after diagnosis, 97 percent of those taking aspirin were still alive, compared to 74 percent of those not using aspirin. By contrast, aspirin had no impact on five-year survival rates among patients without a PIK3CA mutation.

Our results suggest that aspirin can be particularly effective in prolonging survival among patients whose colorectal cancer tests positive for a mutation in PIK3CA, said the studys senior author, Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber, Brigham and Womens Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health. For the first time, we have a genetic marker that can help doctors determine which colorectal cancers are likely to respond to a particular therapy. He cautions that the results need to be replicated by other researchers before they can be considered definitive.

While aspirin is often prescribed for colorectal cancer patients, doctors havent been able to predict which patients will actually benefit from the treatment. The new finding suggests that the survival benefit is limited to the 20 percent whose tumors have the PIK3CA mutation.

For the remaining patients, aspirin may still be used, but it is likely to be much less effective and can sometimes lead to gastrointestinal ulcers and stomach bleeding.

The study was prompted by previous research that suggested that aspirin blocks an enzyme called PTGS2 (cyclooxygenase-2), causing a slowdown in the signaling activity of another enzyme, PI3K. That led researchers to hypothesize that aspirin could be especially effective against colorectal cancers in which the PIK3CA gene which provides a subunit of PI3K is mutated.

To conduct the study, investigators obtained data on 964 patients with rectal or colon cancer from the Nurses Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study long-term tracking studies of the health of tens of thousands of people. The data included information on the patients use of aspirin after diagnosis and the presence or absence of PIK3CA mutations in their tumor tissue.

The study, which combines the study of disease-related genes and research into large populations of individuals, represents a new, hybrid field which Ogino has termed molecular pathology epidemiology. The field may help us bring together information from two frontiers of cancer research at both the molecular and population levels in ways that are beneficial to patients, he said.

The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (P01 CA87969, P01 CA55075, P50 CA127003, R01 CA149222, R01 CA137178, and R01 CA151993); the Bennett Family Fund for Targeted Therapies Research; the Entertainment Industry Foundation through the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance; the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship at Harvard University; and a Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award.

The lead author of the study is Xiaoyun Liao, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber. In addition to Ogino, the papers other corresponding author is Andrew Chan, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Womens and Massachusetts General Hospital. Co-authors include Paul Lochhead, MB, ChB, Reiko Nishihara, PhD, Aya Kuchiba, PhD, Mai Yamauchi, PhD, Yu Imamura, MD, PhD, Zhi Rong Qian, MD, PhD, Ruifang Sun, and Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber; Charles Fuchs, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber and Brigham and Womens Hospital; Edward Giovannucci, MD, MPH, of the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Womens; Teppei Morikawa, MD, PhD, of University of Tokyo Hospital; Yoshifumi Baba, MD, PhD, of Kumamoto University, Japan; Kaori Shima, DDS, PhD, of Kagoshima University, Japan; and Katsuhiko Nosho, MD, PhD, of Sapporo Medical University, Japan.

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Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University say they have perfected a new gene therapy that could block the transmission of many inherited diseases from mother to child.

But the procedure could raise new ethical questions over genetically engineering offspring.

Already tested in monkeys, the technique replaces defective genetic material in a mother's egg cells before it is fertilized and implanted in the womb. In the new study, published in the journal Nature, researchers used 106 human egg cells obtained from volunteers.

If proven safe, the technique could be used to eliminate genetic dispositions toward diabetes, deafness and eye disorders, along with dementia, heart disease and neuropathy.

It would also give scientists the power to, for the first time, permanently alter the genetic material of future generations.

OHSU is already discussing the potential for human clinical trials with federal regulators, according to Shoukrat Mitalipov, the lead researcher.

Stay tuned for a fuller account later today.

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Contact: Jim Newman newmanj@ohsu.edu 503-494-8231 Oregon Health & Science University

PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon Health & Science University's development of a new gene therapy method to prevent certain inherited diseases has reached a significant milestone. Researchers at the university's Oregon National Primate Research Center and the OHSU Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology have successfully demonstrated their procedure in human cells. It's believed that this research, along with other efforts, will pave the way for future clinical trials in human subjects.

The research results are online Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the highly respected journal Nature. Dr. Mitalipov also will present the results of his research at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Conference in San Diego Oct. 24'.

The OHSU gene therapy method was initially devised through research in nonhuman primates led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., associate scientist in the Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences at ONPRC, Oregon Stem Cell Center and OHSU School of Medicine departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Molecular and Medical Genetics.

The procedure was specifically developed to prevent diseases related to gene defects in the cell mitochondria. Mitalipov's previous work was published in the August 2009 edition of Nature. In the current study, Mitalipov, in collaboration with Paula Amato, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the OHSU Center for Women's Health, demonstrated efficacy of this therapy in human gametes and embryos.

"Cell mitochondria contain genetic material just like the cell nucleus and these genes are passed from mother to infant," explained Mitalipov. "When certain mutations in mitochondrial DNA are present, a child can be born with severe conditions, including diabetes, deafness, eye disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, dementia and several other neurological diseases. Because mitochondrial-based genetic diseases are passed from one generation to the next, the risk of disease is often quite clear. The goal of this research is to develop a therapy to prevent transmission of these disease-causing gene mutations."

To conduct this research, Mitalipov and his colleagues obtained 106 human egg cells from study volunteers recruited through OHSU's Division of Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. The researchers then used a method developed in previous nonhuman primate studies, to transfer the nucleus from one cell to another. In effect, the researchers "swapped out" the cell cytoplasm, which contains the mitochondria. The egg cells were then fertilized to determine whether the transfer was a success and whether the cells developed normally. Upon inspection, it was demonstrated that it was possible to successfully replace mitochondrial DNA using this method.

"Using this process, we have shown that mutated DNA from the mitochondria can be replaced with healthy copies in human cells," explained Mitalipov. "While the human cells in our study only allowed to develop to the embryonic stem cell stage, this research shows that this gene therapy method may well be a viable alternative for preventing devastating diseases passed from mother to infant."

The current Nature paper also expanded upon the previously reported nonhuman primate work by demonstrating that the method was possible using frozen egg cells. Mitochondria were replaced in a frozen/thawed monkey egg cell, resulting in the birth of a healthy baby monkey named Chrysta.

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ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) Oregon Health & Science University's development of a new gene therapy method to prevent certain inherited diseases has reached a significant milestone. Researchers at the university's Oregon National Primate Research Center and the OHSU Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology have successfully demonstrated their procedure in human cells. It's believed that this research, along with other efforts, will pave the way for future clinical trials in human subjects.

The research results are online Oct. 24, in the journal Nature. Dr. Mitalipov also will present the results of his research at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Conference in San Diego Oct. 24

The OHSU gene therapy method was initially devised through research in nonhuman primates led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., associate scientist in the Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences at ONPRC, Oregon Stem Cell Center and OHSU School of Medicine departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Molecular and Medical Genetics.

The procedure was specifically developed to prevent diseases related to gene defects in the cell mitochondria. Mitalipov's previous work was published in the August 2009 edition of Nature. In the current study, Mitalipov, in collaboration with Paula Amato, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the OHSU Center for Women's Health, demonstrated efficacy of this therapy in human gametes and embryos.

"Cell mitochondria contain genetic material just like the cell nucleus and these genes are passed from mother to infant," explained Mitalipov. "When certain mutations in mitochondrial DNA are present, a child can be born with severe conditions, including diabetes, deafness, eye disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, dementia and several other neurological diseases. Because mitochondrial-based genetic diseases are passed from one generation to the next, the risk of disease is often quite clear. The goal of this research is to develop a therapy to prevent transmission of these disease-causing gene mutations."

To conduct this research, Mitalipov and his colleagues obtained 106 human egg cells from study volunteers recruited through OHSU's Division of Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. The researchers then used a method developed in previous nonhuman primate studies, to transfer the nucleus from one cell to another. In effect, the researchers "swapped out" the cell cytoplasm, which contains the mitochondria. The egg cells were then fertilized to determine whether the transfer was a success and whether the cells developed normally. Upon inspection, it was demonstrated that it was possible to successfully replace mitochondrial DNA using this method.

"Using this process, we have shown that mutated DNA from the mitochondria can be replaced with healthy copies in human cells," explained Mitalipov. "While the human cells in our study were allowed to develop to the embryonic stem cell stage, this research shows that this gene therapy method may well be a viable alternative for preventing devastating diseases passed from mother to infant."

The current Nature paper also expanded upon the previously reported nonhuman primate work by demonstrating that the method was possible using frozen egg cells. Mitochondria were replaced in a frozen/thawed monkey egg cell, resulting in the birth of a healthy baby monkey named Chrysta.

The second portion of the study, which was completed at ONPRC, is also considered an important achievement because egg cells only remain viable for a short period of time after they are harvested from a donor. Therefore, for this therapy to be a viable option in the clinic, preservation through freezing likely is necessary so that both the donor cell and a mother's cell are viable at the time of the procedure.

While this form of therapy has yet to be approved in the United States, the United Kingdom is seriously considering its use for treating human patients at risk for mitochondria-based disease. It's believed that this most recent breakthrough, combined with earlier animal studies, will help inform that decision-making process.

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HIV and AIDS Cure With Stem Cells Now Accepted Stem Cell Therapy
youtu.be Whether as differentiated or undifferentiated, whether from sheep stem cells or from rabbit; delivered frozen or fresh, today #39;s stem cell therapies are showing real promise and helping HIV-AIDS sufferers around the world, today! Cautious not to claim they can cure ANYTHING, today #39;s ethical clinics offer hope for AIDS-HIV sufferers worldwide, although the one Thai clinic licensed by the German stem cell technique is in Bangkok. For information to help you make an informed, personal decision, check out StemCell-Asia.info today.From:Kerry DeanViews:5 0ratingsTime:01:03More inPeople Blogs

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