- First Patient Dosed in Safety Expansion Cohort of ZUMA-1 in the European Union (EU)
- Axicabtagene Ciloleucel Being Developed Under Priority Medicines (PRIME) Designation in the EU
- Marketing Authorization Application to the European Medicines Agency for Axicabtagene Ciloleucel Submitted in July 2017
Kite Pharma, Inc., a leading cell therapy company, announced that patients in the European Union (EU) are now being treated with its lead investigational candidate, axicabtagene ciloleucel, in the safety expansion cohort of ZUMA-1 (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT: 02348216). Kite is currently enrolling adult patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL), and transformed follicular lymphoma (TFL) at multiple EU medical centers. Kite filed a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for axicabtagene ciloleucel in July 2017, the first CAR-T application in Europe.
“This important milestone underscores our commitment to providing a potentially curative therapy to patients with serious blood cancers worldwide,” said David Chang, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Medical Officer of Kite. “Our CAR-T expertise established in the United States will be key as we expand our global footprint this year.”
The first patient treated in the safety expansion cohort was at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam by Professor Dr. Marie José Kersten. Additional patients are expected to be treated in multiple clinical sites across Europe in 2017.
“We are encouraged by the promising results observed in ZUMA-1 in the United States and are excited to be one of the first medical centers to bring this novel treatment modality to the EU,” said Professor Dr. Marie José Kersten, Principal Investigator and Head of the Department of Hematology of the AMC in Amsterdam. “As a lymphoma specialist, I am gratified that we can now offer this potentially transformative therapy to patients with refractory, aggressive NHL who previously had no other therapeutic options.”
Kite has been granted access to Priority Medicines (PRIME) regulatory support in the EU for treatment of refractory DLBCL. Access to the PRIME initiative is granted by the EMA to support the development and accelerate the review of new therapies to treat patients with a high unmet need.
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