Australian stem cell biotech Mesoblast announced that it has received regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation from the U.S. FDA. This is very good news for the company and an encouraging development for the field. Interestingly, last month the FDA clarified that there is expanded RMAT designation that can include gene therapies too. At the Meeting on the Mesa in October, an FDA official reportedly presented data indicating that about 1/3 applications for RMATs were granted (see image below from Twitter). This recently announced RMAT …Read More
Enzyvant RMAT
The 21st Century Cures Act has some important regenerative medicine language in it. One part of that was attempting to accelerate FDA review of promising investigation regenerative medicine therapies. The mechanism for this was a new designation called Regenerative Advanced Therapy, now renamed Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) Designation. I don’t think anyone was sure how this would play out in terms of how quickly the FDA would give RMAT designations and to how many investigational products. Already it’s clear the FDA seems to …Read More