Novartis said FDA has accepted the company’s Biologics License Application filing and granted priority review for CTL019 (tisagenlecleucel-T), an investigational chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, in relapsed and refractory pediatric and young adult patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
With major leadership changes, grant disruptions and terminations, and a stoked distrust in science, Steven Artandi, the director of Stanford Cancer Center, worries that young investigators will feel disenchanted by the U.S. research atmosphere and take their work and study elsewhere.
