Juno Ends JCAR015 Development In ALL, Cementing Third Place CAR-T Position

Juno and partner Celgene closed the ROCKET study for JCAR015, which has been on clinical hold since November, and ended development in ALL in favor of its new and improved CD19-targeting CAR-T therapies.

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Juno Therapeutics Inc. has ended development of its CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy JCAR015 for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) due to safety concerns, answering with certainty the question of whether the company could catch up to its competitors, which will be seek approvals for their CAR-T therapies any day now.

Juno said on March 1 in its fourth quarter and year-end 2016 earnings report that the company and its partner...

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