US FDA Open To Cell Therapy ‘Assessment Aid’ That Could Speed Development Of Next-Gen Cancer Drugs
Executive Summary
A framework for sponsors and the FDA to discuss ways to extrapolate existing data to support a new cell therapy could cut the time to approval.
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