Manufacturers of allogeneic cell therapies face development and commercialization challenges unlike those of traditional cell therapies. In a discussion with Phil Vanek of GE Healthcare, we outline several of the key challenges of processing these products and bringing them to market. Approaches for reducing development costs and lowering pricing are highlighted, and a separate analysis presents three pricing models specific for allogeneic “off the shelf†cell products.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted to review a version of Roche’s cancer drug Herceptin (trastuzumab) developed by Chinese biotech Henlius. The European agency has officially accepted to review the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) of Shanghai, Henlius’ trastuzumab molecule HLX02, making it he first biosimilar developed and made in China to be up for review. Scott Liu, co-founder and CEO at Henlius, said the review “shows that our clinical, medical, regulatory affairs and quality system capabilities have been internationally…