
Around 33,000 people in the UK are currently living with multiple myeloma, an incurable type of blood cancer

Mezigdomide improves progression-free survival in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma

Pompe disease is a rare, progressive neuromuscular disease, with infantile onset being the most aggressive form

SPMS is a debilitating stage of MS where patients experience increasing levels of disability

Fontoura previously held senior leadership roles at Xaira Therapeutics and Roche

It is the first anticancer treatment in the UK and globally to be administered this way and a first in multiple myeloma

The company is focused on CAR-T cell therapy to treat multiple myeloma

The treatment can be used to delay the onset of clinical type 1 diabetes

Created in 2016, the Standing in the Gaap programme aims to advance more equitable care

The US FDA has accepted a licence application for drug for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma

There are currently no approved treatments for the neurological symptoms of this disease

Up to 50% of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant patients develop chronic GVHD