Nan­jing Leg­end wows AS­CO re­searchers with ear­ly da­ta on a BC­MA-tar­get­ed CAR-T con­tender

Chi­na’s Nan­jing Leg­end Biotech is a vir­tu­al un­known in the CAR-T field. But it gained mar­quee sta­tus at AS­CO to­day with stel­lar ear­ly mul­ti­ple myelo­ma da­ta on a drug tar­get­ed at B-cell mat­u­ra­tion pro­tein, or BC­MA.

Among 35 re­lapsed, drug-re­sis­tant pa­tients, 33 — 94% — demon­strat­ed clin­i­cal re­mis­sion rang­ing from a com­plete to a par­tial re­sponse. There was a 100% ob­jec­tive re­sponse rate, ac­cord­ing to in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

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