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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...
What to do if you experience delays in obtaining IND-related feedback from the FDA: In December 2015, the FDA released a draft guidance, which provides IND sponsors with a number of recommendations...
Best Practices for FDA Communication with IND Sponsors, Part 2
Last month, FDA published a draft guidance entitled, “Best Practices for Communication Between IND Sponsors and FDA During Drug Development.” The guidance was published with the intention of...
Best Practices for FDA Communication with IND Sponsors
On December 9, 2015, the FDA released a draft guidance entitled, “Best Practices for Communication Between IND Sponsors and FDA During Drug Development.” The guidance attempts to promote timely,...
Best Practices for Meeting-Related Communication with FDA
In December 2015, the FDA released a draft guidance, which provides IND sponsors with a number of recommendations and best practices for communicating with the FDA. Among those included in the draft...
FDA: Major Rule on Generic Drug Labeling Changes to Come in Summer 2016
In November 2013, the FDA introduced a proposed rule entitled, “Supplemental Applications Proposing Labeling Changes for Approved Drugs and Biological Products.” Last month, the Agency announced the...
Is your project schedule ready to pass the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) "litmus test"? Not sure? Well, the Project Management Team at ProPharma is here to lend a helping hand. Below are some...
FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation & Research: 2016 Priorities
FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation & Research (CDER) 2016 Priorities & Areas of Focus Front Burner Priorities: Negotiate PDUFA 6 agreements Negotiate GDUFA 2 agreements Negotiate a second BSUFA program...
Woodcock Announces CDER’s 2016 Priorities & Says ANDA Backlog was the Biggest Challenge of GDUFA I
On Monday, December 14th, the director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Janet Woodcock, M.D., spoke at the FDA/CMS Summit for Biopharma Executives where she announced the...
FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation & Research: 2015 Priorities & Accomplishments
FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation & Research (CDER) 2015 Priorities & Accomplishments Front Burner Priorities: GDUFA: meeting and exceeding performance goals; confident the division can reach steady...
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...