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Novartis Hopes To Breathe New Life Into CAR-T Business With ASCO Myeloma Data

 
• By Alaric DeArment

Gilead’s Kite has taken a lead in multiple myeloma cell therapy while Novartis’s first-to-market Kymriah has slumped in sales, but the Swiss drug maker’s new data may support its effort to win on manufacturing time.

Novartis and Gilead's Kite Pharma at ASCO • Source: Alaric DeArment

Novartis AG bears the distinction of being the first to market with a cell therapy, the CAR-T Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), which won US Food and Drug Administration approval in August 2017 for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children, followed by diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) for adults the next year. But since then, it has fallen behind the second CAR-T to win approval, Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel). Now, Novartis is hoping to regain a leading role in the cell therapy space with new data in multiple myeloma at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.

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