#ASH17: How does No­var­tis’ Kym­ri­ah DL­B­CL da­ta stack up head­ing straight to a CAR-T show­down with Gilead?

No­var­tis turned up at ASH with 6-month da­ta for their pi­o­neer­ing CAR-T Kym­ri­ah that puts them on the in­side track to a quick and near-cer­tain ap­proval for a sec­ond in­di­ca­tion to treat DL­B­CL — and straight in­to a com­mer­cial show­down with Gilead/Kite.

Al­ready snagged as the first in­di­ca­tion to be OK’d for Gilead/Kite’s Yescar­ta, No­var­tis’ in­ves­ti­ga­tors nailed down re­mark­ably sim­i­lar ef­fi­ca­cy da­ta at the 6-month mark that close­ly mir­rors their ri­val. But even with the match­ing out­comes on ef­fi­ca­cy, No­var­tis’ team still feels that they have a clear mar­ket­ing edge on the safe­ty front.

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