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FDA Grant Establishes Complex Generics Center To Increase Access

Key Component Of The FDA’s Drug Competition Action Plan

 
• By Dean Rudge

Complex active ingredients, formulations, routes of delivery, and drug-device combination products are to receive greater attention as part of attempts to facilitate competition after the US FDA awarded a $5m grant to establish a dedicated research center.

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Complex products are a key component of the FDA’s Drug Competition Action Plan • Source: Shutterstock

Two universities in the US are to receive a five-year, $5m grant from the US Food and Drug Administration to establish a Center for Research on Complex Generics, with the aim of enhancing research collaborations with the generics industry to “further the FDA’s mission of increasing access to safe and effective generic products.”

The Universities of Maryland and Michigan are the beneficiaries of the grant, which the FDA says will help with its...

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