Recipe For Doubling Innovative Medicines Includes New Approval Pathway, FDA Management Changes

Presidential advisory panel makes eight recommendations to improve innovation in drug discovery, development and evaluation; calls for broad partnership of stakeholders to accelerate therapeutics, $40 million annual appropriations for FDA’s Sentinel System.

A presidential advisory panel recommends that FDA test out adaptive drug approvals – in which an initial approval is based on a favorable benefit-risk balance in a defined group of patients – as a way to accelerate the availability of innovative drugs.

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) set a goal of doubling the output of innovative, new...

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