Gene Therapy Platforms May Require Less Preclinical Data, Gottlieb Says

US FDA's preclinical policies should be 'more closely matched to the complexion of modern technologies,' commissioner explains.

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US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency is developing new policies for preclinical development of products involving new technology platforms, whereby certain second entry therapies could require less pre-clinical data.

"We're going to be taking other new steps to make sure that our policies governing early, pre-clinical science are more closely matched to the complexion of modern technologies," Gottlieb said in a Sept. 7 speech to Research America's National Health Research Forum in Washington, DC. "One is evidenced in how clinical trials are initially designed. In certain cases, there are a lot of common features across the same platform, even as it's used to target different genes or proteins

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