Hematology

The FDA’s decision was based on data from the phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 clinical trial (NCT04181827).

Review top news and interview highlights from the week ending April 5, 2024.

Miguel-Angel Perales, MD, shares insight into the factors he considers when deciding if a patient should receive CAR T-cell therapy in the second line.

The approval comes a couple weeks after ODAC voted in favor of Abecma’s benefit-risk profile and sBLA.

Caron A. Jacobson, MD, and Miguel-Angel Perales, MD, share considerations for sequencing CAR T-cell therapies in patients with LBCL, depending on treatments they have already received.

Caron A. Jacobson, MD, and Miguel-Angel Perales, MD, discuss the trajectory and role of of CAR T-cell therapy within the treatment spectrum for LBCL.

Investigators observed no notable toxicities including cytokine release syndrome, neurotoxicity or graft-versus-host disease.

Uttam Rao, MD, MBA, a transplant physician at St. David's South Austin Medical Center of Sarah Cannon, discussed research comparing patient outcomes on different conditioning regimens for CAR-T.

Catch up on any of the key FDA news stories you may have missed last month, with coverage highlights from the CGTLive® team.

The professor of medicine at Duke Cancer Institute discussed uptake and research with the cord blood therapy since its approval.

Catch up on the latest news, breakthroughs, and announcements from biotechnology companies making advancements in cell and gene therapies.

The director of the Stem Cell Transplant & Cellular Therapy Program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital discussed when the choice should be made to transition from symptom management to curative therapies.

Val-rox was approved as Roctavian in June 2023.

The assistant professor at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine discussed plans for further research and a phase 2/3 study.

Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, the endowed chair in cellular and molecular medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed how there is still much room for growth for RNA therapeutics despite progress so far.

Vivien Sheehan, MD, PhD, an associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University, discussed how patients should be able to choose to try the recently FDA-approved cell-based therapies for SCD when they are ready.

Review top news and interview highlights from the week ending March 29, 2024.

The clinical investigator in the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital discussed several areas of interest for research now that CAR-T is here to stay.

Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, the endowed chair in cellular and molecular medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed her research on siRNA technology.

The transplant physician at St. David's South Austin Medical Center of the Sarah Cannon Transplant and Cell Therapy Network discussed a real-world study comparing bendamustine against fludarabine and cyclophosphamide.

Catch up on the latest news, breakthroughs, and announcements from biotechnology companies making advancements in cell and gene therapies.

The company noted that it plans to submit the BLA in the second quarter of 2024.

The associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University also discussed the need to empower patients and families to make their own treatment decisions.

In March 2024, the FDA approved the CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel (Breyanzi) as a treatment for relapsed or resistant chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).

John Ligon, MD, an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine, discussed his view of the main priorities for research in this area.