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Cryoport Selected to Support the Potential Commercial Launch of Kite Pharma’s CAR-T Therapy Axicabtagene Ciloleucel – PR Newswire (press release)

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2017-09-05 NEWS

Cryoport Selected to Support the Potential Commercial Launch of Kite Pharma’s CART Therapy Axicabtagene Ciloleucel
PR Newswire (press release)
Jerrell Shelton, CEO of Cryoport, stated, “Kite’s CAR T-cell therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma is based on pioneering science which uses the patients’ own immune cells to treat cancers. It offers hope to patients who previously had no other option left

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2017-09-05 NEWS

Cryoport Selected to Support the Potential Commercial Launch of Kite Pharma’s CART Therapy Axicabtagene Ciloleucel
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Jerrell Shelton, CEO of Cryoport, stated, “Kite’s CAR T-cell therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma is based on pioneering science which uses the patients’ own immune cells to treat cancers. It offers hope to patients who previously had no other option left
Gilead Sciences Couldn’t Have Timed its Splash Into CART BetterMotley Fool

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2017-09-05 NEWS

Madison.com

Why Juno Therapeutics Shares Vaulted 46% Higher in August
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The Kite Pharma deal comes ahead of an expected FDA decision on its CART, axi-cel, on Nov. 29. It’s not a given that axi-cel will get a green light, but it delivered a better than 50% complete response rate in trials, and the FDA opted against holding

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2017-09-05 NEWS

Xconomy

Patient Death Triggers FDA Hold For Cellectis’s “Off the Shelf” CART
Xconomy
The FDA has forced Cellectis to shut down two Phase 1 trials it has been running to test an “off the shelf” type of cell therapy—a stinging setback to the France- and New York-based company’s aspirations to leapfrog other developers of CART, a type
FDA hits Cellectis’ off-the-shelf CART program with clinical hold after first patient treated in phase 1 trial diesFierceBiotech
In staggering setback, toxic reaction kills Cellectis’ first CART patient, forcing trial haltEndpoints News
Cellectis Reports Clinical Hold of UCART123 StudiesBusiness Wire (press release)
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FierceBiotech

FDA hits Cellectis’ off-the-shelf CART program with clinical hold after first patient treated in phase 1 trial dies
FierceBiotech
Doctors at the MD Anderson Cancer Center dosed the first blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) patient with CD123-targeting CART UCART123 on August 16. The patient died nine days later. Initially, the 78-year-old man responded to the …
Patient Death Triggers FDA Hold For Cellectis’s “Off the Shelf” CARTXconomy
After Patient Death, FDA Places Clinical Hold on Cellectis CART Candidate UCART123Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Cellectis Reports Clinical Hold of UCART123 StudiesBusiness Wire (press release)
Endpoints News –Reuters –PharmaTimes
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Why Juno Therapeutics Shares Vaulted 46% Higher in August
Motley Fool
… with a historically poor prognosis, too. Together, these developments show chimeric antigen receptor Tcell therapy, or CAR-T, which involves reengineering a patient’s Tcells to spot and destroy cancer cells, could be the next big thing in cancer