The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has recommended marketing authorization approval of Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel; ide-cel) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least two prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody.
Zhan, seated, with Steven Webber (left), dean of the College of Medicine and executive vice chancellor at UAMS, and UAMS chancellor Cam Patterson (right).The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine invested Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, a tenured professor of medicine and the research director of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Myeloma Center, in the Bart Barlogie Chair for Myeloma Research during a March 13 ceremony.
