The US Food and Drug Administration recently announced the launch of a regulatory incentive program pilot program, the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher Program (CNPVP), designed to reward drug and biologic sponsors...more
More than two years after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (“CMS’”) rapid implementation of the drug price negotiation program, the life sciences industry...more
Many life sciences stakeholders are familiar with “traditional” designation programs operated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in exercising its medical product authorities, such as the orphan drug designation and...more
On February 12, the FDA issued a final rule regarding the use of Drug Master Files (“DMF”) in Biologics License Applications. DMFs are submissions to the FDA “used to provide confidential, detailed information about...more
Psychedelics have the potential to treat chronic conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), fibromyalgia, and various behavioral health conditions, yet...more
In a long-awaited milestone in the gene therapy space, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two gene therapies to cure sickle cell disease (SCD). Soon thereafter these approvals, a key licensing agreement was...more
The Bioresearch Monitoring (BIMO) Program, operated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), conducts on-site inspections and data audits in order to effectively monitor the compliance of all FDA-regulated research....more
In what could be a game-changer to the dietary supplement and food industry, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is proposing to amend the investigational new drug (IND) regulations to exempt clinical...more
As the industry readies itself for the January 2023 pilgrimage to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM) and Biotech Showcase in San Francisco, our market-leading life sciences and health care industry team has prepared...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a revised version of the draft guidance “Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs for Treatment Use – Questions and Answers,” which includes recommendations for...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more
In this episode, Rebecca Schaefer and Michael Hinckle review some types of hospital and health system activities that could trigger FDA regulatory oversight. They discuss the FDA’s jurisdiction over IRB’s in medical device...more
On August 23, 2022, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the “Agency”) published the revised draft guidance “Charging for Investigational Drugs Under an IND Questions and Answers Guidance for Industry” (the...more
In 1982, Chris de Burgh (of “Lady in Red” fame) sang, “Don’t pay the ferryman, don’t even fix a price until he gets you to the other side,” where the narrator warns the passenger not to pay the ferryman (because a storm...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 March 14, 2022, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two draft guidances: “Human Gene Therapy Products Incorporating Human Genome Editing (GE)” and a draft guidance on Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell...more
Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a long-awaited draft guidance, Human Gene Therapy Products Incorporating Human Genome Editing, that addresses key considerations for the development of gene therapy...more
In 1966, Simon & Garfunkel sang “The 59th Bridge Song,” which opens with the lyric, “Slow down, you move too fast.” A drug company recently found out the hard way that pre-approval promotion does not leave the Food and Drug...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
With everything that was happening this past winter, it would have been easy to miss the introduction of S. 4760: The PASTEUR Act. On December 9, U.S. Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Drew Ferguson (R-GA) introduced the...more
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2019 report Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (“CDC Report”), “more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United...more
Many sectors of the economy have ground to a halt in the effort to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic (the “Pandemic”), and the clinical research industry is not immune to the effects of these business shutdowns. While the...more
FDA issued a draft guidance, Demonstrating Substantial Evidence of Effectiveness for Human Drugs and Biological Products (Draft Guidance), on December 19, 2019, as an expansion of its 1998 guidance, Providing Clinical...more