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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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Challenges in Clinical Development of Products for Rare Disease

thought leadership

Rare diseases are defined in the Orphan Drug Act as diseases or conditions that affect less than 200,000 people in the United States. Evaluating and developing treatments for rare diseases remains a key priority for FDA and is incentivized through the Orphan Drug Act.

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Metabolism of 2022 FDA approved small molecule drugs PART 1

Metabolite Tales Blog

Metabolism of 2022 FDA approved small molecule drugs – Part 1 Does CYP3A4 still rule? By Julia Shanu-Wilson It won’t come as much surprise to learn that of the 17 small molecules* approved by the FDA in 2022, CYP3A4 was the major player in drug metabolism.

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Metabolism of 2022 FDA approved small molecule drugs PART 2

Metabolite Tales Blog

Metabolism of 2022 FDA approved small molecule drugs part 2 Mixing it Up By Julia Shanu-Wilson In Part 1 of this topic we looked at metabolism of the small molecule drugs approved by the FDA in 2022 that were mediated by CYP3A4.

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Where is AI winning in drug discovery? 4 use cases to know

Fierce BioTech

Even though AI-designed drugs arent yet a household term for FDA-approved, commercially available therapies, they are a reality in clinical development pipelines.

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FDA Approves Updated Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) for Treatment.

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has converted this indication from an accelerated to a full (regular) approval. 10), as determined by an FDA-approved test, or in patients who were not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 status.

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The science of ageing and restoring healthspan

Drug Target Review

We are at the forefront of drug development in an area of research called cellular rejuvenation, which is an approach that has the potential to address many diseases of ageing by restoring aged and injured cells to a more youthful and resilient state. What evidence is there that we can reverse aging with drugs?

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