First Academic Sponsor On EMA’s PRIME Pledges Cheaper CAR-Ts

An investigational CAR T-cell therapy that hospital researchers in Spain believe they could produce at a third of the price of commercially available CART19 products has been accepted onto the European Medicines Agency's priority medicines scheme.

A new CAR-T therapy is being developed to treat leukemia • Source: Alamy

ARI-0001, an investigational CAR T-cell therapy for leukemia, has become the first product by a developer from the academic sector to make it onto PRIME, the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines scheme.

An autologous CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, ARI-0001 is being developed to treat relapsed/refractory (r/r) acute lymphoblastic leukemia...

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