Tessa picks up RMAT designation for novel Car-T cell candidate

27 February 2020
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Singapore-based Tessa Therapeutics, a Temasek-backed clinical stage biotech company, has been granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation for its experimental CD30-directed autologous Car-T cell candidate by the US Food and Drug Administration.

The designation relates to treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory CD30-positive classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL).

Tessa expects to initiate a pivotal Phase II multi-site trial in this indication in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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