Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Apr 2022
FDA grants regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation to Autolus’ CAR T cell therapy, obe-cel, for the treatment of adult B-ALL
25 April 2022 - Autolus Therapeutics today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation to its lead gene therapy obecabatagene autoleucel (obe-cel), a CD19-directed autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T therapy that is being investigated in the ongoing FELIX Phase 2 study of adult relapsed/refractory B acute lymphocytic leukaemia.
obe-cel has previously been granted PRIME designation by the EMA and Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway by the MHRA, United Kingdom.
