Kite Can Reach Two-Week Yescarta Turn-Around Time After Manufacturing Change

The streamlined process is expected to shorten the turn-around for the CAR-T therapy to about the same time as from an office visit to front-line cancer treatment, Kite Pharma said.

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Kite streamlined its CAR-T manufacturing to shave two days off its turn-around process. • Source: Shutterstock

Kite Pharma, Inc. believes there is more room to lower its Yescarta turn-around time even after the US Food and Drug Administration approved a two-day reduction for its CAR-T cancer treatment Yescarta.

The manufacturing supplement that the FDA cleared will allow Kite’s median turn-around time for Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) to drop from 16 days to 14 days

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