Biocardia Provides Expected Timing For Regulatory Activities For FDA And Japan PMDA Approvals Of Its CardiAMP Cell Therapy System And Helix Transendocardial Delivery Catheter

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | August 04, 2025 06:02am

Q3 2025 Helix application for approval to FDA

The Company intends to submit for approval of the Helix Transendocardial Delivery System (Helix) to FDA as a DeNovo 510(k) application based on its safety and performance in twelve cell and gene therapy clinical studies. The clinical performance of the Helix system sets a high safety standard with more than 4,000 intramyocardial deliveries including studies under CE-mark in Europe. Therapeutic agent retention in the heart has also been shown to be superior using Helix compared to other catheter and surgical delivery approaches.1

Q4 2025 CardiAMP Cell Therapy for Heart Failure meeting request on approval pathway to FDA

BioCardia expects to complete a submission to FDA and meeting request to discuss the approvability of CardiAMP Cell Therapy for treatment of ischemic heart failure based on the available clinical data. The FDA has previously approved a number of important high-risk cardiovascular therapeutic medical devices where safety and benefit were demonstrated but which did not meet pivotal study primary endpoints.2  

The following are expected to be helpful in this discussion:

• FDA's previous granting of the CardiAMP Cell Therapy system Breakthrough Designation based on the significant unmet need that exists for these patients and the previously available clinical results from the Phase I TABMMI clinical trial, the Phase II TAC-HFT clinical trial, and the roll-in cohort results from the CardiAMP HF clinical trial, totaling 63 patients.
• The longer term CardiAMP HF follow-up in the 10-patient roll-in cohort patients as well as the outcomes of the 115-patient randomized procedure placebo controlled double blind cohort with two-year follow-up.
• The status of the submissions of the primary components of CardiAMP Cell Therapy:
  • FDA's 510(k) approval of the point of care CardiAMP cell processing platform used under the trade name Marrowstim for other indications, which BioCardia holds exclusive rights to for cardiac indications.
  • Helix DeNovo 510(k) submission planned in Q3 2025.
• The confirmatory CardiAMP HF II trial is actively enrolling in the USA with five most active centers being Baycare Hospital in Clearwater, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Emory University in Atlanta, Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, and the Cleveland Clinic.  

Q4 2025 CardiAMP Cell Therapy for Heart Failure Clinical Consultation with Japan PMDA.

It is expected that the in-person meeting on the clinical consultation with PMDA requested in July 2025 will take place mid Q4 2025. If the parties are aligned, this could enable BioCardia to submit for approval of the CardiAMP system for market entry in Japan.

This discussion may be influenced by other sponsor's applications to PMDA for allogeneic cell therapies to treat the same clinical indication expected to require chronic immunosuppression and open chest surgical delivery of cells. Such laboratory manufactured therapies may receive early conditional approval under Japan's adaptive framework for the approval of regenerative medical products with a post marketing study. The CardiAMP Cell Therapy is regulated as a medical device as the autologous cells are processed at point of care.  

The point of care CardiAMP cell processing platform is already approved and in clinical use in Japan for orthopedic applications by Zimmer Biomet Japan under the trade name BioCUE.

PMDA has provided advice to BioCardia that should CardiAMP Cell Therapy be approved with Helix, other developers of biologic therapies in Japan would be enabled to use Helix from a regulatory perspective by reference.

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