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ReviewMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2021

Current landscape of clinical development and approval of advanced therapies.

Carolina Iglesias-Lopez, Antonia Agustí, Antoni Vallano, Merce Obach

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Review in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Colorectal Cancer; Novel Approaches in Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) -T cell.International journal of molecular and cellular medicine · 2025
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  19. ATMP clinical trials in the UK.Regenerative medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Carolina Iglesias-LopezDepartment of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Antonia AgustíDepartment of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Antoni VallanoDepartment of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Merce ObachMedicines Department, Catalan Healthcare Service, Barcelona, Spain.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESCatalan Society of Family and Community Medicine · ESVall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) are innovative therapies that mainly target orphan diseases and high unmet medical needs. The uncertainty about the product's benefit-risk balance at the time of approval, the limitations of nonclinical development, and the complex quality aspects of those highly individualized advanced therapies are playing a key role in the clinical development, approval, and post-marketing setting for these therapies. This article reviews the current landscape of clinical development of advanced therapies, its challenges, and some of the efforts several stakeholders are conducting to move forward within this field. Progressive iteration of the science, methodologically sound clinical developments, establishing new standards for ATMPs development with the aim to ensure consistency in clinical development, and the reproducibility of knowledge is required, not only to increase the evidence generation for approval but to set principles to achieve translational success in this field.

Indexed as

cell- and tissue-based therapyclinical trials advanced therapiesdrug approvaldrug developmentgenetic therapyjurisprudencemethodsresearch design

Identifiers

PMID34901306
PMCPMC8626628
OpenAlexW3214592390

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Registered trials

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