Key Outcomes From FDA Type A Meeting and Mesoblast Next Steps to Achieve RYONCIL Approval
FDA clarified that the key remaining issue for pediatric approval is providing further evidence that the potency assay will assure the consistent efficacy of commercial product.
- FDA clarified that the key remaining issue for pediatric approval is providing further evidence that the potency assay will assure the consistent efficacy of commercial product.
- The key outcomes of the meeting and Mesoblast next steps are:
Mesoblast summarised the large body of existing clinical data with the improved RYONCIL® product version of remestemcel-L, manufactured after 2008 using the current process inspected by FDA, for potential approval in children. - Mesoblast presented clinical data indicating that RYONCIL was associated with much higher survival of children with SR-aGVHD in the Expanded Access Protocol (EAP) compared with the earlier Prochymal version manufactured before 2008.
- Mesoblast expects to receive the formal minutes of the Type A meeting within three weeks.