EU Refines Simultaneous Scientific Advice Pilot With Focus On Clinical Trials

Improvements have been made to the second phase of an EU pilot that allows drug sponsors to obtain simultaneous scientific advice from two member states.

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EU regulators have launched an “optimized” version of their popular pilot program that allows drug developers to seek national scientific advice simultaneously from two EU member states on specific scientific, technical or regulatory issues.

The second phase of the Simultaneous National Scientific Advice (SNSA) pilot incorporates an “an optimised procedure intended to maximise the...

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