BMS/bluebird’s Ide-Cel: EU Decision Time On First CAR-T For Multiple Myeloma

The European Medicines Agency will decide this week whether BMS and bluebird bio’s cell-based gene therapy for multiple myeloma should be approved for use in the EU. 

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Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells • Source: Shutterstock

Bristol Myers Squibb Company and bluebird bio could learn this week whether the European Medicines Agency will recommend pan-EU marketing approval for idecabtagene vicleucel (ide-cel), the cell-based gene therapy they have co-developed to treat multiple myeloma.

Ide-cel, which was approved in the US in March under the brand name Abecma, is a B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed genetically modified autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy

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