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Understanding FDA’s Draft Guidance on Ethical Considerations for Involving Children in Clinical Trials

Advarra

In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Spinraza (nusinersen). While the FDA’s approval of nusinersen may not seem extraordinary, it was. Nusinersen’s approval marked the first time nonclinical data supported conducting initial clinical trials involving children.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 2)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

156, as added by the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Amendments, for certain FDA-regulated products. The use of a surrogate endpoint can considerably shorten the time required prior to receiving FDA approval. 8,128,929 was submitted on December 8, 2016 (Docket No. That did not happen. The PTE application for U.S.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

Agency IQ

BY AMANDA CONTI SEP 13, 2023 1:58 PM CDT Quick background on nonprescription drug regulation Nonprescription drugs, also known as over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, are regulated differently than traditional prescription drugs. The FDA will follow these procedures for both agency-initiated operations (e.g.,

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Another Milestone in the Cystic Fibrosis Journey

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Years of hard work, supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, painstakingly worked out the normal function of the protein that is altered in CF, called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR). Credit: Zhang & Chen, 2016, Cell 167, 1586–1597. About 30,000 Americans have CF.

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Improving quality control for CAR T cell therapies

Drug Discovery World

Finally, in 2017, after years of improving T cell engineering techniques, the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy received FDA approval. Since 2017, five CAR T cell therapies have been approved and have shown incredible success in the clinic. CAR T cells are T cells that have been trained to attack tumours.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You What We Expect the FDA to do in December 2023

Agency IQ

What We Expect the FDA to do in December 2023 In this ongoing feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the FDA is likely to do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods and more.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You What We Expect the FDA to do in November 2023

Agency IQ

What We Expect the FDA to do in November 2023 In this ongoing feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the FDA is likely to do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods and more.

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