CARsgen announces investigational CAR-T therapy CT053 granted RMAT designation by the U.S. FDA for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma

CARsgen Therapeutics

28 October 2019 - CARsgen Therapeutics today announced that the United States FDA has granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation to its investigational CT053 CAR-T cell therapy. 

CT053 is a fully human anti-BCMA (B Cell Maturation Antigen) autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T Cell therapy for the treatment of relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma.

RMAT designation was based on clinical data from an ongoing CT053 phase 1 study in heavily pre-treated multiple myeloma patients in China.

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