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Re-Wiring US FDA’s Regulatory Thinking

 
• By Cole Werble

The efforts to upgrade FDA’s information technology infrastructure may be opening up into an opportunity to reinvent its processes for regulatory decision making.

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The US Food and Drug Administration’s tech modernization program is developing into a new way of viewing the speed and underlying structure of the agency’s operations – and a new group of managers who want to lead the way.

Where the past two decades have seen an adoption of a faster review pace in many drug applications, the next...

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