Dendreon requests licensure for additional capacity to manufacture PROVENGE at New Jersey facility

Dendreon Corporation (Nasdaq: DNDN) today announced that it has completed the submission of the post-approval supplement to the PROVENGE® (sipuleucel-T) Biologics License Application for the Morris Plains, New Jersey manufacturing facility. Dendreon is requesting licensure for an additional 36 workstations to manufacture PROVENGE. The standard U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review for a post-approval supplement to a Biologics License Application is typically four months.  

"The submission requesting licensure for additional capacity of the New Jersey manufacturing facility is an important milestone as we work to make PROVENGE more widely available to the many patients who may benefit from it," said Mitchell H. Gold, M.D., president and chief executive officer.

Dendreon's manufacturing facility in Morris Plains, New Jersey is currently operating at 25 percent capacity, with 12 workstations available to manufacture PROVENGE. With the FDA approval of the post-approval supplement to the Biologics License Application, the facility will have a total of 48 workstations. PROVENGE is the first in a new therapeutic class known as autologous cellular immunotherapies.