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Legend Biotech Snapshot
Dedicated to quality and driven by excellence, we are committed to improving the lives of patients worldwide. We are steadfast in our goal to develop innovative cellular therapies that bring us closer to a cure.
From the very beginning, we’ve been focused on science. We came together as a team of experts dedicated to quality, driven by excellence, and committed to experimentation. Though we have faced challenges, we remain fearless in our research and rigorous in our thinking, pushing ourselves to work harder.
At Legend Biotech, we have the opportunity to change the way treatments are developed across diseases and continents. Our goal is to reinvigorate treatment approaches in oncology and beyond.
The spark of hope is lit and we’re using that hope to ignite the future of cell therapy!
From the very beginning, we’ve been focused on science. We came together as a team of experts dedicated to quality, driven by excellence, and committed to experimentation. Though we have faced challenges, we remain fearless in our research and rigorous in our thinking, pushing ourselves to work harder.
At Legend Biotech, we have the opportunity to change the way treatments are developed across diseases and continents. Our goal is to reinvigorate treatment approaches in oncology and beyond.
The spark of hope is lit and we’re using that hope to ignite the future of cell therapy!
Legend Biotech was founded as an early-stage cell therapy company in 2014. The company was the brainchild of visionary scientists who recognized that antibody-based therapeutics could potentially treat disease and possessed the backgrounds in immunology and gene editing to take the leap.
For two years, Legend Biotech, then known as the “Legend Project,” operated in a room the size of a freight elevator, with the goal of creating a cell therapy for multiple myeloma, a hematological cancer that often relapses and can become refractory. The team produced nanobodies for single-domain antibody drugs and ultimately extended the half-life of the nanobodies with proprietary technologies.
In 2015, Legend’s scientists focused on research for chimeric antigen-receptor T-cells (CAR-T) targeting the BCMA protein, making the biotech one of the first companies in the world to engineer CAR-T cells for the BCMA protein. In 2016, investigator-initiated trials began in China.
In 2017, data from the trials were presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which led to a partnership with biopharmaceutical company Janssen Biotech, Inc. to co-develop the anti-BCMA CAR-T, ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel). Applications seeking approval of cilta-cel for the treatment of patients with RRMM are currently under regulatory review by several health authorities around the world. CARVYKTI™ (ciltacabtagene autoleucel) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in February 2022 and received conditional marketing approval from the European Medicines Agency in May 2022.
Today Legend Biotech is a global, commercial-stage company driven by a passion for patients. We continue to build our pipeline of cell therapy platforms, which includes CAR-T, CAR-NK, CAR-γδ T and non-gene-editing CAR technologies.
Our goal is to bring hope and opportunity to patients and their families by continuing to explore unique technologies.
For two years, Legend Biotech, then known as the “Legend Project,” operated in a room the size of a freight elevator, with the goal of creating a cell therapy for multiple myeloma, a hematological cancer that often relapses and can become refractory. The team produced nanobodies for single-domain antibody drugs and ultimately extended the half-life of the nanobodies with proprietary technologies.
In 2015, Legend’s scientists focused on research for chimeric antigen-receptor T-cells (CAR-T) targeting the BCMA protein, making the biotech one of the first companies in the world to engineer CAR-T cells for the BCMA protein. In 2016, investigator-initiated trials began in China.
In 2017, data from the trials were presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which led to a partnership with biopharmaceutical company Janssen Biotech, Inc. to co-develop the anti-BCMA CAR-T, ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel). Applications seeking approval of cilta-cel for the treatment of patients with RRMM are currently under regulatory review by several health authorities around the world. CARVYKTI™ (ciltacabtagene autoleucel) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in February 2022 and received conditional marketing approval from the European Medicines Agency in May 2022.
Today Legend Biotech is a global, commercial-stage company driven by a passion for patients. We continue to build our pipeline of cell therapy platforms, which includes CAR-T, CAR-NK, CAR-γδ T and non-gene-editing CAR technologies.
Our goal is to bring hope and opportunity to patients and their families by continuing to explore unique technologies.
