Minimal Residual Disease 'Coming Soon' As An Approval Endpoint, Celgene Says

Celgene's ASH briefing notes 'unprecedented' MRD-negative data in Phase I study in multiple myeloma development program for CAR-T therapy bb2121; firm sees potential opportunity for the marker to pave way for approval in earlier-line settings of the disease.

Coming soon

Celgene Corp. believes minimal residual disease (MRD) may someday be the ticket to approval of its investigational chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy in early lines of multiple myeloma, even though the regulatory path is currently uncertain.

The company's management spoke about the prospects for MRD to serve as a surrogate endpoint supporting approval during a Dec....

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