Rac­ing past a wound­ed Juno, Kite aims to file lead CAR-T for OK by end of 2016

With Juno Ther­a­peu­tics se­ri­ous­ly de­layed by a brief but painful clin­i­cal hold by the FDA, ri­val Kite Phar­ma out­lined plans to­day to shoot for an ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval af­ter it gath­ers the first round of da­ta on 50 pa­tients from its piv­otal study of a ri­val CAR-T, due in just a few months. And com­pa­ny ex­ec­u­tives say their man­u­fac­tur­ing op­er­a­tions will be ready to start pro­duc­ing this ther­a­py in com­mer­cial quan­ti­ties be­fore the end of this year.

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