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lifileucel· Iovance Biotherapeutics

Cell therapy retrospective. Information cutoff: January 2024, BLA accepted by FDA but pre-approval. Iovance had filed on Phase 2 single-arm data (C-144-01). Subsequent approval Feb 16 2024 as Amtagvi for 2L+ advanced melanoma. Useful for testing the framework on autologous cell therapy economics — higher COGS, capital-intensive manufacturing, ATC network requirements, and a constrained sponsor.

Asset ▸phase 3 · oncology · cell therapy autologous · constrained · 3 designations · 0 competitors[ edit ]

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Rare disease (small N)
BIO/Informa rare-disease base rate (~16% from P1) is built on a small population of approvals. Cumulative LOA estimates are noisier for indications with <20 historical approvals.
Platform companies
Single-asset LOA doesn't capture portfolio effects. A platform with 6 correlated programs has a different risk profile than 6 independent shots-on-goal. v2 portfolio view addresses this.
China-origin assets
BIO base rates reflect FDA/EMA cohorts. NMPA development paths differ; cross-jurisdictional risk profiles are not yet modeled. Treat outputs as US/EU-only.
Pre-2018 capital-position data
Reflexivity multipliers are calibrated to post-2018 trial-design and biomarker-enrichment norms. Older comparables may understate the gap between well-capitalized and constrained sponsors.

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Waiting for PoS / rNPV / scorecard / comparables…