In stag­ger­ing set­back, tox­ic re­ac­tion kills Cel­lec­tis’ first CAR-T pa­tient, forc­ing tri­al halt

The FDA has forced Cel­lec­tis $CLLS to slam the brakes on two clin­i­cal tri­als of its off-the-shelf ver­sion of a CAR-T ther­a­py af­ter their first pa­tient was killed by a lethal­ly tox­ic re­ac­tion to treat­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the biotech, which is based in Paris with R&D op­er­a­tions in New York, a 78-year-old pa­tient suf­fer­ing from blas­tic plas­ma­cy­toid den­drit­ic cell neo­plasm (BPD­CN) died eight days af­ter re­ceiv­ing the biotech’s first dose of the cell ther­a­py. He ex­pe­ri­enced a lethal re­ac­tion as cy­tokine re­lease syn­drome hit, along with a grade 4 case of cap­il­lary leak syn­drome. A sep­a­rate study which al­so treat­ed one pa­tient is un­der­way for acute myeloid leukemia.

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