A cutting-edge biotech was running a program with three active, concurrent, pain studies across 25 sites and 218 patients, with interim database locks scheduled during the summer of 2020 and […]
Productive pre-IND interactions with FDA are important to the success of any drug development program, including infectious disease product development. The Pre-IND Consultation Program through the Office of Infectious Disease (OID), one of 27 review divisions within the Office of New Drugs, provides opportunities for makers of infectious disease products to engage with FDA by facilitating early communications between the Division of Antivirals or the Division of Anti-Infectives within OID and sponsors/investigators of potential new therapeutics – these products include drugs and therapeutic biologics for the treatment of bacterial, fungal, and viral infections (including SARS-CoV-2 infection).
The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges and opportunities in the implementation of decentralized solutions. To fully realize all the advantages and benefits of a truly decentralized approach, partnering with a reliable
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the implementation of decentralized (also referred to as virtual, remote, or hybrid) solutions for clinical trials. In addition to keeping your clinical trials on-track during the pandemic, decentralized solutions can often provide added benefits, including an improved patient experience by increasing engagement and reducing patient burden. We will discuss some considerations for successfully implementing decentralized solutions.
The FDA continues to release additional information and update their website as the COVID-19 pandemic continues and both regulatory professionals and drug developers react to the potential for novel and repurposed products to treat COVID-19. This blog post is the latest installment in a series of COVID-19 related blog posts and updates information provided in a recent webinar.
As the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations increases, another growing threat to the US healthcare system’s ability to respond to the pandemic is emerging: shortages of essential drugs diverted from patients with their primary indications to treat patients infected with COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a substantial impact on many ongoing clinical studies in all phases of product development. Numerous difficult decisions are being made and steps are actively being taken to ensure the safe execution, or future resumption, of ongoing studies. While patient safety is paramount and should drive all study conduct related decisions, many of these decisions can impact the interpretability of estimates of efficacy at study conclusion.
