Kite Phar­ma hits its Q1 dead­line on fil­ing a BLA for its pi­o­neer­ing CAR-T, posts im­proved da­ta

With the clock tick­ing down the fi­nal hours of Q1, Kite Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals $KITE has kept its pledge to file an ap­pli­ca­tion for its pi­o­neer­ing CAR-T ther­a­py in the first quar­ter. The move puts Kite one step be­hind No­var­tis $NVS, which two days ago an­nounced that it had the FDA’s com­mit­ment for a speedy re­view of its own CAR-T.

The ques­tion now is whether the FDA will give the Kite’s ap­pli­ca­tion a pri­or­i­ty re­view as well, per­haps lin­ing up back-to-back ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee meet­ings to ex­am­ine the pros and cons of this new wave of can­cer ther­a­py.

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