Just in time to assure a decision before CVR deadline, Bristol Myers Squibb files NDA for Celgene/bluebird CAR-T

A new CAR-T therapy may be coming. And maybe $9 per share for Celgene investors, too.

Bristol Myers Squibb announced they submitted an NDA for the multiple myeloma “ide-cel” CAR-T therapy Celgene developed in partnership with bluebird. The therapy is one of the three that has to be approved to unlock the BMS-Celgene contingent value agreement that would give shareholders of the absorbed NJ company $9 per share. The first, ozanimod, was approved last week. The second, a CAR-T treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma called liso-cel, was submitted to the FDA in December.