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Kidney-tissue platforms could reduce animal testing in toxicology studies

Drug Discovery World

Kidney disease researchers at the University of Washington will use a multimillion-dollar federal grant to advance drug development platforms that would reduce reliance on animal tests. The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 The investigators, in the UW schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, received the $7.3

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Low endotoxin biomaterials could help to reduce animal testing

Drug Discovery World

A new study has found that highly purified gelatin biomaterials could enhance the reliability and reproducibility of 3AD in vitro models, creating new possibilities for replacing preclinical animal trials. This can improve the validity of 3D in vitro models and help to reduce animal testing.”

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Separating the Hype from the Hyperbole Surrounding FDORA’s Alternatives to Animal Testing under the FD&C Act

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

Since 1962, the FD&C Act has authorized FDA to require that sponsors of clinical trials submit data from “preclinical tests (including tests on animals)” in order to demonstrate that their drug is safe enough to advance to testing in humans. adequate to justify the proposed clinical testing.”

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Alternative testing methods covered by the FDA Modernization Act 2.0

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A recent law passed in the USA means that new drugs do not need to be tested on animals before human studies. With support from over 200 organizations, the "FDA Modernization Act 2.0" expands the range of models that can be used to test a compound before clinical trials.

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Closing the translation gap in oncology drug development

Drug Discovery World

The recent passage of the FDA Modernization Act, which removed the requirement for animal testing when suitable alternatives are available, has highlighted the inadequacy of animal models most often used for in vivo research. Fewer than 5% of oncology drugs that enter clinical trials in the US receive US FDA approval.

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4 Unique Challenges of Oncology Trials

Advarra

of new cancer drugs tested in Phase I were likely to receive Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Innovation Organizations conducting oncology clinical trials face challenges distinct from the rest of the research community. Typical clinical development timelines for anticancer drugs average an estimated 6.7

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Why have medicines progressed so little in the last decades?

Drug Discovery World

Dr Pandora Pound , Fellow Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics explores the hinderances of animal testing in pharma and why new technologies such AI, genomics and synthetic biology c an further drug development. Had only animal studies been used, telcagepant and MK3207 may well have gone on to harm humans. Alzheimer’s Dement.