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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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Present Treatments & Hopeful Future Directions for ALS Pharmacotherapies

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

Authors: Rich Worldwide Clinical Trials Exec. This trend is on the rise despite recent disappointments with clinical trial outcomes, which have the potential to destabilize the industry in the short term regarding drug development strategy and optimal study designs. Director, Therapeutic Area Medical Lead.

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Leveraging Genetic Testing for Enrolling Rare Disease Trials

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

Written By: Derek Ansel, MS, CCRA, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease Given that 80% of rare diseases have a genetic etiology, genetic implications should be addressed at the onset of a clinical program to support trial enrollment. One diagnostic example that I discussed in my presentation is autism.

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Novel Bispecific therapies in oncology

SugarCone Biotech

Where TGF- is present there is no or limited IFN- secretion by T cells and that means no PD-L1 expression within the tumor microenvironment, aka the TME. The recent integrin inhibition program that was being developed by Pliant has not yet demonstrated a positive/risk benefit profile at least in pulmonary fibrosis.

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Bayer to present new data from comprehensive finerenone clinical trial program

The Pharma Data

Bayer will present new renal and cardiovascular (CV) analyses from the comprehensive finerenone (Kerendia®) clinical trial program, including the Phase III FIGARO-DKD and FIDELIO-DKD studies, and the prespecified pooled analysis FIDELITY at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN)’s Kidney Week 2021 from 4-7 November.

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Overcoming Orphan Drug Development Challenges with Real-World Data and Evidence

PPD

Real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) have emerged as transformational tools in addressing these hurdles, advancing rare disease drug development. Moreover, in some rare disease trials, it is unethical to design a control group of patients with a placebo.

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Pharmacy Considerations for Early Phase Trials

Fierce BioTech

As Phase 1 clinical trials include several different design types with multiple objectives (e.g. png Listing Introduction Join this webinar to receive expert guidance and learn key considerations for successfully planning pharmacy activities in early phase trials. Click here to login. Listing Image DrVince_ListingLogo_250x190.png