The PRIME initiative provides enhanced support and increased interaction to companies, with the goal of optimizing development plans and speeding regulatory evaluations to potentially bring innovative medicines to patients more quickly. To be accepted for PRIME, a therapy must demonstrate potential to benefit patients with unmet medical need through early clinical data or nonclinical data. Access to the PRIME initiative complements bluebird’s ongoing participation in the EMA’s Adaptive Pathways Pilot program, which also aims to expedite patient access to therapies with the potential to treat serious conditions with unmet need. It uses the existing EU regulatory framework for medicines, including conditional approval.
“PRIME designation will allow bluebird bio to further improve our
communication with European regulators as we continue to refine our
evidence generation plan in the context of adaptive biomedical
innovation. Overall, we believe this will enable us to accelerate
development of LentiGlobin drug product for patients with
transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, a life-shortening disease with
significant unmet medical need,” said
About bluebird bio, Inc.
With its lentiviral-based gene therapies, T cell immunotherapy expertise and gene editing capabilities, bluebird bio has built an integrated product platform with broad potential application to severe genetic diseases and cancer. bluebird bio’s gene therapy clinical programs include its Lenti-D™ product candidate, currently in a Phase 2/3 study, called the Starbeam Study, for the treatment of cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, and its LentiGlobin™ BB305 product candidate, currently in four clinical studies for the treatment of transfusion-dependent ß-thalassemia, and severe sickle cell disease. bluebird bio’s oncology pipeline is built upon the company’s leadership in lentiviral gene delivery and T cell engineering, with a focus on developing novel T cell-based immunotherapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR T) and T cell receptor (TCR) therapies. bluebird bio’s lead oncology program, bb2121, is an anti-BCMA CAR T program partnered with Celgene. bb2121 is currently being studied in a Phase 1 trial for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. bluebird bio also has discovery research programs utilizing megaTALs/homing endonuclease gene editing technologies with the potential for use across the company’s pipeline.
bluebird bio has operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Seattle,
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding
Company’s EU regulatory plans for its LentiGlobin BB305 product
candidate to treat transfusion-dependent ß-thalassemia, including
whether the current or planned clinical trials of LentiGlobin will be
sufficient to support regulatory submissions for marketing approval, the
expected timing of any such submissions and decisions, and any potential
for an accelerated assessment of any future MAA for LentiGlobin. In
addition, it should be noted that the EMA Adaptive Pathways program is a
pilot program, and as such there is limited information and precedent
regarding the potential outcomes for sponsors that participate in this
program. Any forward-looking statements are based on management’s
current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such
forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but
are not limited to, risks that the preliminary results from our prior
clinical trials of LentiGlobin will not continue or be repeated in our
current or planned clinical trials, the risk of cessation or delay of
any of the ongoing or planned clinical trials of LentiGlobin, the risk
that the EMA will not deem the MAA for LentiGlobin sufficient for early
or conditional approval in transfusion-dependent ß-thalassemia. For a
discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and other important
factors, any of which could cause our actual results to differ from
those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section
entitled “Risk Factors” in our most recent quarterly report on Form
10-Q, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and
other important factors in our subsequent filings with the
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