EU Review Time Lengthens for BMS’s CAR-T Therapy Liso-Cel
Company Wants More Time To Answer Reviewers’ Questions
• By Maureen Kenny
Bristol Myers Squibb's marketing application for liso-cel is in the final stages of the review process at the European Medicines Agency. The agency’s drug evaluation committee, the CHMP, adopted in mid-April the list of concerns it has with the application.
EU reviewers often have late-stage questions for companies • Source: Alamy
Bristol Myers Squibb wants more time to answer questions from European reviewers regarding the company’s marketing authorization application for lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel).
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