US FDA Not Ready For Sponsors Citing Others’ Platforms Yet, Marks Says

Many platform designation requests have been from sponsors eager to cite other sponsors’ products, but CBER Director Peter Marks said in an interview with the Pink Sheet his office likely is years away from accepting those applications.

subway platform, mind the gap
A gap in platform designation program expectations has emerged between sponsors and the FDA. • Source: Shutterstock

Industry may be eager to use rival sponsor technology as a platform for additional approvals, but the US Food and Drug Administration is not.

More from Platform Technologies

UK MHRA Consults On The Way For Personalized mRNA Cancer Therapies

 

The UK’s drug regulator is developing a “clear and streamlined” regulatory pathway for individualized cancer mRNA immunotherapies.

‘Ambitious Platform’ Among EU Proposals For Increasing mHealth Data Use In Regulatory Decision-Making

 

mHealth data generated by smartphones and wearables show potential for enhancing the clinical evidence used in regulatory decision-making, but there are “notable challenges” that may hinder the use of such data, EU regulators say.

US FDA Not Ready For Sponsors Citing Others’ Platforms Yet, Marks Says

 

Many platform designation requests have been from sponsors eager to cite other sponsors’ products, but CBER Director Peter Marks said in an interview with the Pink Sheet his office likely is years away from accepting those applications.

Genome Editing: US FDA Eyes Platform-Based Approach To Development And Approval

 
• By 

CBER Director Peter Marks outlines a streamlined process to approval for treating different mutations of the same gene. NCATS’ Philip Brooks tells the Pink Sheet the approach avoids the need to “start from scratch for every new mutation.”

More from Advanced Technologies

US FDA Under Makary: MAHA With A Lighter Touch

 

US FDA Commissioner nominee Martin Makary is being embraced by industry, and Senate Democrats, as a more traditional pick than other Trump Administration nominees, but the Make America Healthy Again agenda still is clearly coming to the agency.

EU HTA Regulation: Companies Can Talk To National Authorities As ‘Substitute’ For EU-Level Advice

 

Not all companies will be able to access joint scientific consultations under the EU Health Technology Assessment Regulation, but success is still possible for those that engage with national agencies early on, says EUCOPE’s Alexander Natz.

German, Dutch And Italian HTA Processes Not Supportive Of RWD, Say Companies

 

Payers and health technology assessment bodies in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy are either unwilling to use real-world data in assessments or cannot due to their existing frameworks, say representatives from Gilead Sciences and Autolus Therapeutics.