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Digital Transformation in Life Sciences: The Importance of Data Strategy
What is Digital Transformation?
While there are many different definitions of digital transformation in life sciences, the core concepts they all have in common are digital technology and creating new, or modifying existing, ways of working. The underlying business driver is that digital...
Califf Pledges to Review FDA’s Opioid Policies to Address US Opioid Epidemic
On February 4, Robert Califf, MD, FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco, released a new plan to reassess the Agency’s approach to opioid regulation. The plan includes a number of...
On February 1, 2016, the Biosimilars Forum, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing biosimilar access in the US, announced the launch of “Partnership for Biosimilar Education and Access,” a...
FDA Lists Devices to Include Human Factors Data in PMA & 510(k) Submissions
On Wednesday, FDA released a draft guidance entitled “List of Highest Priority Devices for Human Factors Review.” The draft guidance was published by FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health...
FDA Partners with Commonwealth Informatics to Build Drug Safety Analysis Platform
On January 28, 2016, the FDA and Commonwealth Informatics entered into a two-year agreement where they will work together to develop a platform to help the Agency assess drug safety data. The...
FDA’s CBER Announces Invitation to Participate in the Regulatory Site Visit Training Program
On February 2, 2016, the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) published its annual invitation for biologics facilities to participate in the Regulatory Site Visit Training...
FDA & NIH Join Forces to Publish BEST Resource: a Glossary of Clinical Definitions
On January 28, 2016, an FDA and NIH Joint Leadership Council published its first official glossary of terms and definitions, which “clarifies important definitions and describes some of the...
FDA Provides ANDA Sponsors with BE Study Recommendations for 42 Generic Drug Ingredients
On June 11, 2010, the FDA published its draft guidance entitled “Bioequivalence Recommendations for Specific Products.” This draft guidance “explained the process that would be used to make...
Bill to Support the Development of Regenerative Medicine Introduced in Senate
On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D – WI) introduced the “Advancing Standards in Regenerative Medicine Act,” a bill supporting the development of regulatory science and the...
On November 25, 2015, Amgen Inc. submitted a Biologics License Application (BLA) for ABP 501, the company’s biosimilar candidate to Humira® (adalimumab). Earlier this week, Amgen announced that its...
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...
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...
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...
Patient Support Programs (PSPs) in the pharmaceutical sector represent an array of aimed at supporting patients in initiating therapy and maintaining adherence. PSPs, also known as Patient Assistance...
The link between statistical methods and healthcare is not a new one, but the volume of available data to inform healthcare decisions and the use of data science in the medical industry has exploded...
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...