Iovance Lucks Out With Amtagvi

The long-delayed accelerated approval of the melanoma T-cell therapy comes a week early, and with a generous label.    

Iovance

After a long and pitfall-strewn campaign, Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. has finally scored US accelerated approval of its T-cell therapy lifileucel for certain melanoma patients. The company’s share price rose by 33% to $12.14 after the close on 16 February on the NASDAQ, presumably on investors’ sheer relief.

Key Takeaways

  • Iovance’s tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy lifileucel has been approved in the US as Amtagvi

The battle is not strictly over yet. The company’s ongoing confirmatory trial, which sees the tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy, now...

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