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Regulator and Funder? FDA’s Orphan Products Grants Program awards significant funding to help move promising treatments through clinical development

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays a pivotal role in fostering the development of treatments for rare diseases through its Orphan Products Grants Program. Each year, FDA selects a limited number of clinical trials to fund to help sponsors pursue development of medical products for rare diseases and advance their field.

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Webinar: Assessing Cognition Impairment Using Driving Simulators in Clinical Trials

Alta Sciences

The FDA guidance, Evaluating Drug Effects on the Ability to Operate a Motor Vehicle , indicates that testing in early-phase clinical development should emphasize sensitivity over specificity in CNS effects. Tags Clinical Trials Weight 12 View the Driving Simulation Fact Sheet for more information.

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FDA Approves Updated ADUHELM™ Prescribing Information to Emphasize Population Studied in Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

The update includes an addition to the Indications and Usage section of the label (Section 1) to emphasize the disease stages studied in the clinical trials, as seen below ( italics to note updated language). The update clarifies the indication by emphasizing information about the disease stages studied in the ADUHELM clinical trials.

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The science of ageing and restoring healthspan

Drug Target Review

With significant validation of our platform in hand, we are now rapidly advancing towards the clinic with our lead therapeutic, OSK. We hope to initiate the first human clinical trials with our lead indications in 2025, which would represent a monumental step forward for the field of cellular rejuvenation.

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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

The Pharma Data

In alignment with Novavax’ commitment to transparency, Phase 3 clinical trial protocols are posted to the company’s website at Novavax.com/resources upon finalization. pivotal Phase 3 trial update. Novavax completed enrollment of 15,000 participants in a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial being conducted in the U.K.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

By then, a few cancer immunotherapies had entered clinical trials and only a handful had been approved by the FDA. As a first step, Manguso set his sights on treatments called PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, which at the time had shown tremendous promise in clinical trials and would receive their first FDA approval in 2014.

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FDA Approves Oxlumo (lumasiran) for the Treatment of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1

The Pharma Data

FDA Approves Oxlumo (lumasiran) for the Treatment of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Oxlumo (lumasiran) injection for subcutaneous use, the first-ever therapy available for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) to lower urinary oxalate levels in pediatric and adult patients.