European Medicines Agency (EMA) Validates Atara Biotherapeutics' Marketing Authorization Application for Tabelecleucel for the Treatment of Epstein-Barr Virus-Positive Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease

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Nov 30, 2021

Atara+Biotherapeutics%2C+Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRA), a leader in T-cell immunotherapy, leveraging its novel allogeneic EBV T-cell platform to develop transformative therapies for patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced that the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for tabelecleucel (tab-cel®) has been fully validated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Tab-cel is an investigational treatment for patients with Epstein-Barr virus-positive post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (EBV+ PTLD) who have received at least one prior therapy following solid organ transplant (SOT) or hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT).