Implementing User Fees Should Be Lighter Lift For FDA This Time Around; Bill Heads To White House

The REMS removal and labeling changes should open up CAR-T treatment to many more US patients, although other regulatory hurdles and safety language that experts had wanted removed still stand.

Ongoing questions about user fees exerting too much influence over the FDA could spawn a shift in the PDUFA structure when talks begin later this year.

John Crowley discussed how he prioritizes industry’s many competing challenges in a Pink Sheet interview at the BIO International Convention.

Davis, a former FDA team leader in the Division of Psychiatry Products, rejoins the agency from the Usona Institute, which develops psychedelics. His background aligns with Commissioner Martin Makary’s goal of seeing new treatments approved for post-traumatic stress disorder.