Pink Sheet Podcast: Taking A Look Back, And Forward, With US FDA’s Project Orbis

Pink Sheet reporters and editors in the US and Europe consider the growth and impact of Project Orbis after a year in which two major regulators joined the program, but several countries did not keep up with the US approval pace.

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Pink Sheet senior writers Derrick Gingery and Eliza Slawther, Senior Editor Sue Sutter, Managing Editor Bridget Silverman, and Executive Editor Nielsen Hobbs discuss recent revelations about the approval totals among the Project Orbis partners compared to the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency (:45), the program’s ongoing impact on global harmonization (9:15), and its potential to grow beyond oncology (16:49) in a look back at the program’s eventful year.

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