Temple: FDASIA Directs FDA To Learn To Use Existing Authority

CDER’s Robert Temple says FDASIA mostly restates existing FDA authority, but also tells the agency it must better communicate what authority it has and how it will use it.

FDA’s most important mandate in the new user fee statute may be that it learn to use the power it already has to shorten approval times or allow alternative evidence to inform decisions, according to long-time FDAer Robert Temple.

Abilities like approving drugs only for specific population subsets or being more flexible with clinical trial designs already exist in...

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