Complex Generics: Pre-Competitive Research Collaborations To Get US FDA Funding Boost

Center for Research on Complex Generics will be similar to the Critical Path Institute; training sessions for industry could begin in January.

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The FDA is funding an academic center intended to promote pre-competitive industry collaboration on complex generic development. • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration is hoping an academic-run group can boost industry’s involvement in complex generic drug research.

A five-year, $5m grant to the University of Maryland and University of Michigan will establish the Center for Research...

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