First therapy to treat transplant patients with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease approved for marketing authorisation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), October 14, 2022

On October 14, 2022, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that it has recommended a marketing authorisation in the EU for Ebvallo (tabelecleucel), a medicine used to treat adults and children from 2 years of age who, after receiving an organ, or a bone marrow-transplantation, develop a blood cancer called Epstein-Barr virus positive post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (EBV+ PTLD). PTLD is rare, and Ebvallo was designated as an ‘orphan medicine’ (a medicine used in rare diseases) on 21 March 2016. The applicant for Ebvallo is Atara Biotherapeutics Ireland Limited.

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