Ropes & Gray recently hosted its Third Annual Ropes & Gray Rare Disease Forum on May 1, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event gathered legal, commercial, and patient advocacy experts in the rare disease community to...more
In recent years, Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) have sought to reform the accelerated approval process, an expedited development and approval pathway for drugs that provide meaningful therapeutic...more
1/22/2025
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As the curtain closed on 2024, FDA issued a new draft guidance to assist clinical trial sponsors, investigators, and institutional review boards (“IRBs”) with defining, identifying, and reporting protocol deviations in...more
1/7/2025
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