UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of December 2020
Commission File Number 001-38716
GAMIDA CELL LTD.
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
5 Nahum Heftsadie Street
Givaat Shaul, Jerusalem 91340 Israel
(Address of principal executive offices)
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On December 14, 2020, Gamida Cell Ltd. (“Gamida Cell” or the “Company”) issued a Report on Form 6-K, a copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report on Form 6-K, announcing that it conducted a Type B Meeting for omidubicel with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) on Friday, December 11, 2020.
During the meeting, the FDA provided encouraging feedback regarding the Phase 3 study of omidubicel pertaining to the pre-specified primary and secondary endpoints. The FDA also recommended that Gamida Cell generate additional manufacturing-related data prior to requesting a pre-Biologics License Application (BLA) meeting. Specifically, the FDA requested that Gamida Cell demonstrate analytical and clinical comparability from the company’s planned commercial manufacturing sites. The company believes the clinical comparability requirement will be met if the time to neutrophil engraftment in patients from the company’s ongoing expanded access program (EAP) using omidubicel produced at Gamida Cell’s planned commercial manufacturing sites is consistent with the results achieved in the Phase 3 clinical trial. Based on the feedback received at the meeting with FDA, Gamida Cell intends to submit a full BLA for omidubicel in the second half of 2021 in lieu of the company’s previous plan to initiate a rolling BLA submission by the end of 2020. The revised plan could support a potential commercial launch of omidubicel in the United States as early as mid-2022.
As previously announced, given the encouraging Phase 1 data presented at the 2020 ASH meeting, the company also plans to submit an IND for GDA-201, its expanded natural killer cell investigational therapy, in 2021.
This Report on Form 6-K contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including with respect to timing of initiation and progress of and data reported from the clinical trials of Gamida Cell’s product candidates, anticipated regulatory filings including BLA submission, launch readiness and FDA approval, commercialization efforts and Gamida Cell’s expectations regarding its projected ongoing operating activities, which statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, but not limited to the scope, progress and expansion of Gamida Cell’s clinical trials and ramifications for the cost thereof; and clinical, scientific, regulatory and technical developments. In light of these risks and uncertainties, the events and circumstances discussed in such forward-looking statements may not occur, and Gamida Cell’s actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied thereby. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Report on Form 6-K and are based on information available to Gamida Cell as of the date of this release.
This Report on Form 6-K, excluding the exhibits attached hereto, is hereby incorporated by reference into the Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-234701).
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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| December 14, 2020 | By: | /s/ Shai Lankry |
| | | Shai Lankry |
| | | Chief Financial Officer |
