Rare Disease Clinical Trials Most Often Terminated Due to Regulatory and Recruitment Issues The difficulty associated with successfully completing rare disease clinical trials is well-known. Most people believe that recruitment is the primary reason because, by definition, the number of...
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Developing a new biopharmaceutical product is a lengthy, high-stakes journey. It takes, on average, at least 10 years and over $2 billion to successfully bring a new drug to market, and only 10% to 15% of products ultimately receive regulatory...
This is the third installment in a four-part blog series highlighting FDA designations for products with rare disease indications: orphan drug designation (ODD), rare pediatric disease designation (RPDD), and humanitarian use device (HUD) designation. Part 2 examined orphan drugs, and in Part...
In 2019, only 1.2 percent of global clinical studies included India, even though the country is estimated to bear 20 percent of the global disease burden. One reason for the slow growth of clinical research in India has been its...
Technology transfer is a critical step in any drug development program, occurring for various reasons and at different development stages. A sponsor may be looking for a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for clinical trial manufacturing; to transfer a...
Emerging biopharma companies play a big role in overall drug development—the percentage of new therapies both originated and launched by these companies has increased over the last decade, in an industry that is growing at the same time. As drivers...
Preparing to meet with the FDA can be challenging and stressful for sponsors, especially when they do not know what to expect. Many have misunderstandings about how meetings should be conducted and what constitutes success. Others find themselves needing to...
This is the second installment in a four-part blog series highlighting FDA designations for products with rare disease indications: orphan drug designation (ODD), rare pediatric disease designation (RPDD), and humanitarian use device (HUD) designation. Part 1 compared these designations, and in...
Drug development is an extremely cumbersome process, requiring the testing of an agent from in vitro studies to in vivo studies to in silico modeling. Given that it can take up to 20 years for a final product to be approved, it is unsurprising that drug...
Comparing Orphan Drug, Rare Pediatric Disease, and Humanitarian Use Device Designations The FDA offers sponsors a variety of special programs to incentivize development of therapies to treat unmet patient needs, including fast track, breakthrough therapy, and qualified infectious disease product designations. This blog...