Thursday, August 30, 2018 Daily Archives

Gilead says CA plant will supply Yescarta to EU until 2020

Kite’s manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California, will supply Europe with the newly approved CAR-T therapy Yescarta while a facility in The Netherlands is being prepared. Gilead Sciences has received marketing authorization from the European Commission (EC) for its chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel). The therapy is approved to treat patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL). “Across the European Union, it is estimated that…