Kite First Off The Blocks For EU CAR-T Filing
Executive Summary
Kite Pharma may have been pipped to the post to be first with a CAR-T product at the US FDA, but it has sneaked in the first EU filing courtesy of PRIME for axicabtagene ciloleucel.
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