CARsgen Therapeutics Receives IND Clearance for BCMA-CAR T cells from the U.S. FDA
Jun 19, 2019
SHANGHAI, June 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CARsgen Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company committed to developing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapies for cancer, today announced that one of its leading drug candidates, CT053 fully human BCMA (B-Cell Maturation Antigen)-CAR-T cell for the treatment of patients suffering from relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (rrMM), has received Investigational New Drug (IND) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). CT053 has also received IND clearance from the National Medical Products Administration in China four months ago and is the subject of an ongoing phase I clinical trial.