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FDA Approves First CAR-T Immunotherapy

Uses Thermo Fisher’s CTS Dynabeads Technology

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

The FDA has approved Novartis’ chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) cell therapy, Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel, formerly CTL019), for the treatment of patients 25 years and younger with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that is refractory or in second or later relapse. It is the first FDA-approved CAR-T immunotherapy, which uses specifically developed Cell Therapy Systems (CTS) Dynabeads technology, part of Thermo Fisher’s Cell Therapy Systems (CTS) portfolio. The magnet...

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