FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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.” 21 U.S.C. §

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biobide

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Where possible, NAM s seek to avoid the use of animal testing or at least to reduce it. However, reports drawn up as recently as June 2023 still emphasize the necessity of animal testing at some point as we are still far from understanding and reproducing all the variables present in a whole organism in an in vitro or in silico model.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 3, 2024

These assays may include pharmacokinetic (PK) assays, which provide information on the drug’s properties, and immunogenicity assays for the detection of anti-drug antibodies (ADA), which can lead to adverse events and reduced efficacy. FDA no longer needs to require animal tests before human drug trials [Internet].

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Advarra

JUNE 20, 2023

years , with biotechnology-derived products potentially adding another year or more. Because of this, oncology researchers may only have access to minimal existing scientific literature related to cell-based data and animal testing to predict an investigational therapy’s effect on human factors.

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The Premier Consulting Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

As a result, the FDA is now required to consider alternatives to animal testing, such as in vitro , in silico , and in chemico tests and models. In this blog post, we examine several alternative approaches to animal testing and how the FDA handles the application of these methods in specific scenarios.

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Agency IQ

JUNE 9, 2023

The guidance looks very different from the draft that was published in February 2020, including changes in the scope of the guidance, its sponsorship, and the removal of all mentions of nonhuman primates for animal testing. Nonclinical studies encompass much more than just animal studies. Pivotal (i.e.,

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