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Breaking the Chains of Project Management Dysfunction
Right now, you are sitting in front of your computer and wondering how, based on current project status, you will achieve your remaining project goals for the year or achieve those planned for the new year.
It's no wonder scientists begin clinical trials with great excitement: combine promising discoveries with the best test sites, scientists, and as many qualified, willing patients as possible, and off...
FDA Announces Plans to Resume Domestic Inspections with New Risk Assessment System
On Friday, July 11th, Stephen Hahn, MD, Commissioner of the FDA, issued a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update, announcing the Agency’s plans to resume “prioritized domestic inspections of FDA-regulated...
Improving Cost Efficiency, Speed, and Completeness of Generic Applications
An abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) is a “streamlined” marketing application that is submitted to the FDA for review containing information and data about a generic drug product. Once...
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a structural weakness in many products’ supply chains. In terms of supply of pharmaceutical products, supply shocks were not mitigated when intermediates or production...
Today, with the FDA endorsing fewer new treatments, life sciences companies are pressured to develop better therapies while also struggling to control costs and retain their star employees. And while...
A Guide to Understanding Long Term Follow-Up for Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
When conducting a clinical trial, there are many aspects sponsors need to be aware of with regards to clinical safety, product efficacy, and the ability to bring treatments through the multiple...
How Should You Respond & React When Employees Become Infected with COVID-19?
On Friday, June 19th, the FDA issued a guidance document explaining what manufacturers of drugs and biological products should do, if and when, employees become infected with COVID-19. The...
The submission of your drug application (NDA, ANDA, BLA, etc.) is an exciting accomplishment, and one of the first major milestones is a pre-approval inspection (PAI) of the manufacturing sites...
How Opioid Analgesic Drugs are Approved by the FDA
The benefit-risk assessment is the cornerstone of how all drugs are approved. This assessment captures the scientific evidence, uncertainties, policy, and reasoning used by FDA officials to arrive at...
In order to incentivize the development of therapies (drugs biologics) to fill unmet medical needs for treatment of serious conditions, the FDA has developed various programs to expedite drug...
Understanding Statistical Intervals: Part 2 - Prediction Intervals
Part 1 of this series discussed confidence intervals. Confidence intervals are the best known of the statistical intervals but they only bound regions associated with population parameters; i.e., the...
Patient Support Programs (PSPs) in the pharmaceutical sector offer a range of services to help patients start and adhere to their therapies, including Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), patient...
What is a Clinical Study Report? A Clinical Study Report (CSR) is a document that describes the methods and results of a clinical study or trial, along with a short discussion of key findings related...
Compiling and submitting a New Drug Application (NDA) submission is a complicated and intensive activity. Once you have submitted your application to FDA, you may be curious about what can you expect...
Formal FDA Meetings for Sponsors or Applications of PDUFA Products
This article has been updated since its original February 28, 2017 publication. Since the introduction of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) VII for fiscal years 2023 - 2027, the FDA...