Once unthinkable, the pioneer biotech firms are jumping in with their own proposals for an abbreviated follow-on biologics regulatory pathway. They recognize that this may be the best time for many years to get a system that builds in rigorous tests for follow-ons.
By Ramsey Baghdadi
Senator Ted Kennedy is close to brokering a deal for additional risk management and postmarket surveillance authority for the Food...
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Cellares’ fully automated cell therapy manufacturing platform is the first system to receive an Advanced Manufacturing Technology designation from US FDA
The UK’s drug regulator is developing a “clear and streamlined” regulatory pathway for individualized cancer mRNA immunotherapies.
mHealth data generated by smartphones and wearables show potential for enhancing the clinical evidence used in regulatory decision-making, but there are “notable challenges” that may hinder the use of such data, EU regulators say.
Many platform designation requests have been from sponsors eager to cite other sponsors’ products, but CBER Director Peter Marks said in an interview with the Pink Sheet his office likely is years away from accepting those applications.
The UK regulator wants to help companies to develop bacteriophages for the treatment of infections. Its first guidance on this topic offers advice to researchers and sets out the regulatory requirements they will need to meet.
The remarks from the new CBER director suggest Prasad will not be involved in most product-specific decisions.
A UK research team has used artificial intelligence to find new treatments for cancer using existing US Food and Drug Administration-approved medicines that are not normally not used for the disease.
