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.”

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Animal Testing Biosimilars Cell Based Assays FDA 64

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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Animal Testing Drugs Pharmacokinetics Regulations 106

Advarra

JUNE 20, 2023

Innovation Organizations conducting oncology clinical trials face challenges distinct from the rest of the research community. 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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Trials Clinical Trials FDA Approval Therapies 52

Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

puts an end to the previous mandate that all drugs need to be tested on animals prior to human clinical trials. Prior to this European Union Parliament, in 2021, voted for animal testing phase out. The US FDA Modernisation Act 2.0., Nature Cancer. 2022;3(4):418-36. Frontiers in Physiology.

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Animal Testing Clinical Trials Pharmaceutical Companies FDA 98

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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Molecular Biology Pharmacokinetics Laboratories Animal Testing 52

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.

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