Biologics

04
Nov
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AAM GRx-Biosims Meeting Day One Morning Highlights

The GRx-Biosims 2019 meeting started off with a meditation and stretching exercise; after that, we had to put our minds to work and begin exercising out neurons.  Anna Abram, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Legislation, and International Affairs, provided an update on generic drug activity, action plans, and biosimilars.  Key points and highlights were: Record breaking […]

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11
Sep
Biologics

Generics Compete with Brands on Tiers and Appear to be Losing

Oh, the games that are played to keep market share are becoming more curious every day.  Just check out this article from Drug Topics penned by Louis Tharp and Craig Burton entitled Generics and Biosimilars Facing Formulary Difficulties (here). When Hatch-Waxman was passed, there were attacks on the bioequivalence of generic drugs, the quality of […]

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27
Aug

FDA’s Interpretation of the “Deemed to be a License” Provision of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovations Act

Contract Pharma published an article back in March briefing how the FDA will administer the transition of NDAs to BLAs. Facing the future transition of biological products from regulation as new drugs under the FFDCA to regulation as biologics under the PHSA in March of 2020, it is not too early to begin incorporating this […]

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27
Aug

Considerations for Analytical Method Validation Life Cycle Controls

A question that may be raised by industry professionals is, “How does the upcoming ICH Q14 guideline impact the methods that I currently use?” The FDA’s July 2015 Guidance for Industry: “Analytical Procedures and Method Validation for Drugs and Biologics” references analytical method development, the use of statistical tools during method validation, and life cycle […]

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30
Jul
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ICH Q12 – Ready or Not, Here it Comes!

California Separation Sciences Society (CaSSS) holds a two-day, highly interactive meeting with attendance from the biotechnology industry and global regulators each summer in the Washington, DC area (i.e., the CMC Strategy Forum).  This year the title of the forum was “The Future of Post-Approval Changes is Coming – Are You Ready for ICH Q12?” and […]

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28
Jun

FDA Proposes a Fix for the DMF Issue for “Deemed to Be a License” NDAs

Section 7002(e)(4) of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 requires that on March 23, 2020, all New Drug Applications (NDAs) for biological products will be “deemed to be a license” under Section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).  In December of last year, the FDA published a final guidance as […]

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26
Jun

The Agency Speaks to Its Effort for Modernizing FDA’s New Drugs Regulatory Program

Today, in the Federal Register (here), the FDA announced a portion of its continuing modernization plan relative to better assessing its summary of approval that FDA prepares for all new NDA and BLA approvals. The notice asked for public comment on “the Clinical Data Summary Report Pilot program as part of the Agency’s continuous assessment […]

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13
May

A Deeper Dive on the Biosimilar Interchangeability Guidance Viewed from Our Biologics Expert

On Friday May 10, the FDA published the much-anticipated final version of the guidance document Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability with a Reference Product.  We did a general post here  and, while recognizing the final version is similar (highly similar?) to the previous draft from January 2017, a careful review (as outlined here) found several useful […]

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10
May

Biosimilar Interchangeability Guidance Hits the Street

The issue of the use of biosimilars and their uptake in the market has been a discussion point since the first biosimilar was approved in 2015.  Today, the FDA issued a long-awaited guidance on how a firm can demonstrate interchangeability of a biosimilar to its reference licensed product. The guidance is titled Considerations in Demonstrating […]

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