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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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Why Including Patients in FDA Engagement Will Benefit Your Trial

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

Patients are the backbone of clinical trials, playing an essential role in the drug development process. However, patients also play a vital role in engaging directly with the FDA. It also means sponsors are less likely to waste time and resources developing programs that don’t work for patients.”

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AlgoTherapeutix Receives Regulatory Approval to Initiate Clinical Development of ATX01

The Pharma Data

AlgoTherapeutix recently raised a 12M€ Series A that will fund the Phase 1 and 2 clinical development of ATX01. In parallel, AlgoTx firmed-up ATX01’s development pathway via a pre-IND consultation with the FDA and obtained an Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA to explore ATX01’s activity in erythromelalgia.

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Harnessing AI and Real-World Data: The Future of Clinical Development

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that is expected to continue to rise, it’s critical to find methods that materially help improve disease outcomes. Data, technology and AI are being used in innovative ways to optimize study design and trial protocol development and predictive analytics.

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FDA Sets a Recommended Framework for Predicting the Mutagenic and Carcinogenic Potential of Nitrosamine Drug Substance-Related Impurities

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Nitrosamines are hardly ever good, Now FDA has issued policy. All of these deviations discussed in FDA inspectional observations and Warning Letters have caused serious issues for manufacturers of APIs or finished drug products. An earlier FDA guidance, revised in 2021. An earlier FDA guidance, revised in 2021.

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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

The Pharma Data

Preliminary blinded data on NVX-CoV2373 in older adults needed to proceed to Phase 3 has previously been positively reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Additional clinical data from the Phase 2 trial conducted in the U.S. NVX-CoV2373 (SARS-CoV-2 vaccine) FDA Approval History. Source: Novavax, Inc. .

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How to Run DMC? It’s Tricky – FDA’s New Draft Guidance Provides Updated Recommendations on How to Best Use Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

Clissold — The trio of CDER, CBER, and CDRH released a new draft guidance titled “ Use of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials ” that revises the 2006 guidance “Establishment and Operation of Clinical Trial Data Monitoring Committees” and, when final, will replace the 2006 guidance.