Kite Pharma Inc. said it has submitted a Marketing Authorization Application to the European Medicines Agency for axicabtagene ciloleucel as a treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma , transformed follicular lymphoma, and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma who are ineligible for autologous stem cell transplant.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
