Prescription drug application user fees will increase again in fiscal year 2025, although not as much as the previous year, while similar charges for generics and biosimilars will spike.
US FDA Corrects Errors, Limits PDUFA Application Fee Increase
The agency used a 10-year average with updated figures to calculate the FY 2025 PDUFA application fee and limit the impact of submission volatility, but still allowed GDUFA and BsUFA fees to skyrocket.

More from User Fees
Sanofi’s Dupixent, Amgen’s Uplizna, and Bristol’s Opdivo seek new indications, while J&J hopes to start a franchise with nipocalimab and Stealth’s day of reckoning approaches.
FDA staffing cuts are making negotiation preparations more difficult, but also could mean the result is a smaller user fee renewal package.
Republican congressional staffers could bring a wealth of experience and strong contacts with key legislators to the FDA ahead of the next user fee reauthorization process. But will Health and Human Services Department leadership interfere?
Multiple sources, including former Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, told the Pink Sheet that industry is quietly complaining about FDA work delays and they expect the problem will worsen.
More from Pathways & Standards
A risk-based approach to human cell therapies and tissue-based products could incentivize development and prevent bad actors from taking advantage of the current FDA system.
Experts working in the advanced therapy space say the US has less strict criteria for regulatory pathways for cell and gene therapies than the EU, particularly for products in early development.
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.