Kite adds promis­ing leukemia re­spons­es in small CAR-T stud­ies, then fires the start­ing gun on its rolling sub­mis­sion

Kite Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals $KITE has lined up a fresh batch of pos­i­tive ef­fi­ca­cy da­ta for its lead CAR-T for ad­vanced cas­es of acute lym­phoblas­tic leukemia at ASH. And then lat­er Sun­day evening the biotech added that it has launched its rolling sub­mis­sion for a first ap­proval.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors turned up at the big ASH meet­ing to say that the drug spurred a com­plete re­mis­sion in 9 of 11 evalu­able pa­tients — 82% — en­rolled in the ZU­MA-3 and ZU­MA-4 Phase I stud­ies for ALL in a pre­lim­i­nary re­view.

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