Bristol’s CAR-T Strategy Comes Into Focus With Two Near-Term Filings
Executive Summary
In its first ASH since acquiring Celgene and with competitors coming, Bristol presented pivotal results for liso-cel (JCAR017) that support a year-end US FDA submission as bb2121 nears a first-half of 2020 filing.
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