STAT Plus: Show us the data: Bluebird raises questions by sitting on results of CAR-T drug critical to its future
Celgene (CELG) told investors last week that its experimental CAR-T therapy for patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma would be submitted to regulators in the first half of 2020. Naturally, that filing presupposes a positive outcome from an ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial. So when will those data be disclosed?
On that not-so-minor question, Celgene remains noncommittal, except to say the results on the treatment called bb2121 will be known later this year. Meanwhile, Celgene’s partner, Bluebird Bio (BLUE), is also withholding long-term patient outcomes from an earlier clinical trial of bb2121. That decision hasn’t attracted as much scrutiny as it deserves.
