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Article EMA Thank You What you need to know about the status of the proposed EMA fees regulation

Agency IQ

The adoption of a “fees payable” regulation, Council Regulation (EC) No 297/95 , permitted (and continues to permit) the regulator to assess fees for many of the services it provides to medicines developers. There are other fee-related regulations as well.

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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

Drug Discovery World

Europe is traditionally a life sciences powerhouse, with a strong tradition in pharmaceutical discovery. The oldest, still active pharmaceutical company worldwide, Merck, started life in 1668 in Darmstadt, Germany. Members of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) spent €41.5

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Can Europe become a major player in cell and gene therapy?

Drug Discovery World

A new report by Charles River Associates for the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA has revealed that Europe is falling behind the US and Asia in its pharmaceutical R&D investment, particularly when it comes to Advanced Therapies Medicinal Products (ATMPs) like tissue, gene and cell therapies. .

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Could NfL accelerate drug development for neurodegenerative diseases?

Drug Discovery World

The UK’s regulator, the MHRA, has indicated support in its early-stage advice, but suggests more clinical data is also needed. These factors have made regulators reluctant to rely on NfL in benefit-risk assessments of new therapies. 2019 Aug;11(15):1405-1418. doi: 10.4155/bio-2019-0163. Epub 2019 Aug 12.

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The Market for Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs (IPEDs)

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

2018 ; Llewellyn and Tober 2010; Denham 2019 ). Underground labs can be defined as illicit operations where IPEDs, most commonly anabolics androgenic steroids, are produced from these imported powders outside of registered pharmaceutical manufacture. 2014 ), and can broadly be characterised as social supply (Coomber et al.

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Diabetic eye disease: The urgent need for early, non-invasive treatments

Drug Discovery World

Currently in a Phase Ib/IIa study, it is believed to stabilise GAP-junction activity through regulation of connexin-43. In 2019 there were >14.2 million diagnosed cases of diabetic retinopathy in the nine major pharmaceutical markets, expected to grow to >17.7 million by 2029, according to GlobalData.

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Senator Burr: Rip Van Winkle Performance on Drug Importation, Owes Italy an Apology 

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This past June, during a debate in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), the committee’s Ranking Member, demonstrated that he does not understand very important developments in our nation’s approach to drug regulation and safety. It was almost as if Sen. Those are facts.

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