Celgene Corp. announced initial data from the dose-escalation part of an ongoing, open-label multicenter phase 1/2 study of investigational lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel; JCAR017) in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma, including patients with cytogenetic features of high-risk disease, who were previously treated with ibrutinib.
While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.
