The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday a “Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher” (CNPV) program, which will provide a “limited number” of vouchers to sponsors of drug products that are “aligned with...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs and biological products “with more effective,...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the draft guidance “Protocol Deviations for Clinical Investigations of Drugs, Biological Products, and Devices,” which provides advice for sponsors, investigators, and...more
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D., and other senior FDA officials recently published a “Special Communication” in JAMA describing FDA’s concerns with the use of AI in medical product...more
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently held a Patient Engagement Advisory Committee meeting focused on clinical trial informed consent practices. Below, we summarize key takeaways from the meeting, including a...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued this week three guidance documents related to clinical trials: a draft guidance on multiregional trials in oncology, a draft guidance on integrating randomized controlled...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its long-awaited draft guidance, “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Studies,” which outlines the...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the establishment of the “Center for Drug Evaluation (CDER) Center for Clinical Trial Innovation” (C3TI). C3TI is intended to be a “central hub” within CDER aimed at...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a final rule on “Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations,” which permits an exception from the...more
On November 29 and 30, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, hosted a public workshop on ways to increase the enrollment of historically...more
Continuing the trend over the past few years to promote diversity in clinical trials, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published new draft guidance on “Postmarketing Approaches to Obtain Data on Populations...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just published a highly-anticipated draft guidance on the implementation of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) for drugs, biologics, and medical devices. In the draft...more
On March 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued revised draft guidance summarizing how it intends regulate the use of electronic systems, records, and signatures in clinical investigations to account for...more
U.S. President Biden recently enacted the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023,” a $1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill that contains the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (FDORA). Below we analyze how Section 3612 of FDORA,...more
In the waning days of 2022, Congress passed the omnibus spending legislation to provide funding for the federal government through September 2023. The legislation contains numerous reforms focused on FDA bundled under Title...more
On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the revised draft guidance, “Charging for Investigational Drugs Under an IND: Questions and Answers,” which responds to FAQs about FDA’s policies for charging...more
Now that FDA’s grace period for regenerative medicines has ended, many manufacturers of human cell, tissue, or cellular- or tissue-based products (HCT/Ps) will be required to file a biologics license application (BLA) with...more
On April 14, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new draft guidance to industry for increasing racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials. The draft guidance, “Diversity Plans to Improve Enrollment of...more
A new ban on “Detailed Targeting” options for advertisers on Facebook and other Meta-owned social media platforms – which includes restricting marketing based on “health causes” – takes effect January 19, and may make it more...more
On May 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance titled “Frequently Asked Questions Statement of Investigator (Form FDA 1572) (Revision 1),” updating 2010 guidance of the same name. The revised...more
On April 21, 2021, FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Director Peter Marks M.D. confirmed that the grace period intended to provide developers of regenerative medicines with time to assess whether they...more
On April 27, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its first Notice of Noncompliance to a company for failing to submit required clinical trial summary results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. In...more
Companies in the life sciences and health care industry, like most companies, navigated unparalleled challenges in 2020. But unlike other industries, they had to do so while simultaneously facing the biggest challenge of all...more
On November 9, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final version of its guidance, Enhancing the Diversity of Clinical Trial Populations--Eligibility Criteria, Enrollment Practices, and Trial Designs. ...more
Earlier this year, we wrote about a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that, if upheld, would require companies to make public a decade of clinical trial results for products that have...more