Bridget joined the Pink Sheet during the very first US Prescription Drug User Fee Act cycle and has maintained a focus on the US FDA’s drug review and approval process. Her role as managing editor of US regulatory analysis builds on her long experience at the Pink Sheet and its earlier affiliated publications Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly and the NDA Pipeline. She oversees the Pink Sheet’s US FDA Performance Tracker suite of regulatory data, which also inform her coverage of drug development and clinical trial design. Bridget he is always interested in seeing how regulatory policy works out in practice and contributes to the Pink Sheet’s Drug Review Profile series. Outside of work, Bridget keeps track of her family, three dogs, and ever-expanding library of mystery novels.
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The US FDA's Psychopharmacology Advisory Committee emphasized high standards over regulatory flexibility while turning down Otsuka's brexpiprazole plus serotonin for post-traumatic stress disorder based on conflicting Phase III trials and post-hoc Phase II analyses.
The 43 novel agents with user fee goal dates in the remainder of 2025 have fewer oncologics and infectious disease drugs than the first half of the year.
Rexulti’s post-traumatic stress disorder sNDA tries to make up for a failed Phase III study by placing a Phase II study into a key evidentiary role, raising questions for the July 18 advisory committee meeting about assessing discordant results and post-hoc analyses.
US FDA's 25 novel approvals in 2025 fell short of the agency's five-year average count, driven by a drop in drugs center approvals; 45 user fee goals remain in second half of year.
Akin to the 505(b)(2) NDA, a new biologic pathway could reduce the need for animal testing, FDA toxicologist says. Expanded use of generally accepted scientific knowledge (GASK), which few sponsors have attempted despite a 2023 draft guidance, would also help.
The transparency initiative collects CRLs already made public in approval packages on its drugs@fda site to post on the openFDA public portal.