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EMA ‘Trying Its Best’ To Offer More Early Scientific Support For Sponsors

 
• By Eliza Slawther

The head of the European Medicines Agency’s scientific advisory office is hopeful that the organization’s PRIME initiative will be enshrined in EU legislation over the coming years, rather than just existing as an initiative from the agency.

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The European Medicines Agency is aware that its US counterpart, the Food and Drug Administration, offers a “much higher variety” of early support mechanisms for sponsors, but it is aiming to support companies as much as it can, according to the head of the agency’s scientific advisory office, Iordanis Gravanis.

During an interactive EMA event, Gravanis noted that while the EMA does not have as many mechanisms in place to...

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