The US Food and Drug Administration was deluged with questions during a webinar on the development of new drugs to treat non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), showing how hot the area is in pharma R&D and the issues of concern to sponsors, from the use of biomarkers to the length of trials.
NASH Drug Development Questions? US FDA Has Many Of The Answers
From biomarkers to treatment effect size, agency officials respond to some of more than a hundred questions that poured in during a webinar on development of drugs to treat the liver disease.
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