US FDA Questions Adequacy Of Mesoblast’s Remestemcel-L Single-Arm Study For Pediatric GVHD
Executive Summary
In advisory committee briefing documents, agency also says critical quality attributes of the graft-versus-host disease treatment do not show a relationship with clinical potency and may not ensure control of clinical effectiveness of individual drug product lots.
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