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Medical and Regulatory Affairs

The FDA Is Ending Its Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Vouchers – and Time Is Running Out to Get One

Between 2010 and 2018, 33.8 percent of the 402 orphan indications approved by the FDA were approved for children only or targeted pediatric diseases.[1] The rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program is one incentive that’s helped to spur research and development in this area with more than 20 vouchers granted to date, but it...

Are You Ready for the FDA’s eCTD Filing Deadline? That’s May 5, 2018. Yes. Tomorrow.

It’s already been three years since the FDA issued its “Guidance on Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format—Certain Human Pharmaceutical Product Applications and Related Submissions Using the eCTD Specifications.” This guidance established a mandatory requirement for electronic submission of certain applications, amendments, supplements, and reports to the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)...