ICH Q7 refers to the need to establish the impurity profile for an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API): “An impurity profile describing the identified and unidentified impurities present in a typical batch produced by a specific controlled production process should normally be established for each API. The impurity profile should include the identity or some qualitative […]
Did Timothy Leary have it right? There is more interest these days in research into the use of psychedelic drugs as a therapy for many conditions and the FDA is getting on board by publishing a guidance document entitled Psychedelic Drugs: Considerations for Clinical Investigations Guidance for Industry (here). The guidance notes that the “U.S. […]
Today’s pre-publication of the Federal Register contains a proposed rule (here) that will require the expansion of the current IND annual report. “Current § 312.33 requires sponsors that have an IND in effect to submit an annual report that must contain individual study information, which generally includes brief summaries of the status of each ongoing […]
In today’s prepublication of the Federal Register appears the final rule entitled Annual Summary Reporting Requirements Under the Right to Try Act (here). The Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina, Right to Try Act of 2017 (Right to Try Act), was signed into law on May 30, 2018. This Act provides an […]
While FDA has allowed charging for investigational drugs since the 1987 “Charging Rule” went into effect, the Agency has been responding to questions from industry ever since. In 2009, the FDA revised the Charging Rule itself. The revised guidance (here) discusses these changes and notes that the “FDA’s regulations on charging for investigational drugs under […]
Today, the FDA published the final guidance titled “Bioavailability Studies Submitted in NDAs or INDs — General Considerations” (here). The final guidance comes after the FDA incorporated comments that it received on the draft of the same name issued on February 26, 2019. That 2019 draft guidance replaced the March 2014 guidance titled “Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies […]
FDA finalized its guidance entitled “Civil Money Penalties Relating to the ClinicalTrials.gov Data Bank Guidance for Responsible Parties, Submitters of Certain Applications and Submissions to FDA, and FDA Staff” (quite a mouthful) today (here) which was originally issued as a draft in September 2018. The FR Notice announcing the availability of the guidance (here) indicates […]
On Tuesday, July 21, Mary Oates, Ph.D., Vice President, Compliance Services, will be participating in a webinar organized by Informa, publishers of the Pink Sheet and Scrip. Mary will be a panelist in a session on Virtual Drug Inspections, occurring at 2 PM EST. The entire webinar series, which is taking place over a 24 […]
In a post entitled The Path Forward: Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program (here) penned by FDA Commissioner Steven Hahn, CBER M.D., Director Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., and CDER Director Janet Woodcock, M.D., the FDA describes the accelerated actions the Agency is taking to move the most promising therapeutic treatments to patients as quickly as possible. Just […]
With social distancing, borders closing, people self-quarantining at home, traveler screenings at airports, and people just trying to get home from abroad, perhaps only those contemplating starting or having an ongoing clinical study are thinking about or asking for guidance about what to do with clinical studies, while many of us are simply worried about […]
